Science Night
A place for scientists to tell their story.
We found 4 episodes of Science Night with the tag “medicine”.
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Luxurious Chaos with Dr. Alexis Katsis
February 15th, 2023 | Season 3 | 35 mins 29 secs
cellular engineering, chaos theory, engineering, fashion, gold, luxury, luxury goods, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, podcasting, scicomm, science, science podcasting
This week, Dr. Alexis Katsis from the Luxesci podcast is joining us to talk about her work as an immunologist during the COVID-19 pandemic and her shift looking at the more luxurious side of science. In the news, we're talking about some cyborg cells that could change the way we treat certain diseases (or usher in the end of humanity...) and James tries to talk about theoretical mathematics with some chaotic, and beautiful, results.
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The Ballad of the Nine Inch Snails with Bea Ramiro
May 27th, 2022 | Season 3 | 56 mins 4 secs
astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biomedicine, black holes, chemistry, china, climate change, comets, cone snails, epidemiology, field work, fusion energy, grad school, medicine, mollusks, monkey pox, nuclear fusion, physics, physilogy, scicomm, science, tritium
This week, we have the triumphant return of those marvelous mollusks, the cone snails! We're talking to Bea Ramiro from the Safavi Lab at the University of Copenhagen, who is looking at a potential medical use for cone snail venom. In the news, we hop aboard the de-hype train, talk about fusion fuel, sing a black hole song, and explore a secret garden. Plus a new line of cone snail merch at our website, scinight.com/merch!
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Miasma and Masks, The Deadliest Stink
September 25th, 2020 | Season 1 | 38 mins 22 secs
ancient medicine, greek history, history, medical history, medicine, sanitation, scicomm, science, victorian history
Join us as we talk about miasma theory, the heroes of sanitation, and the development of medical masks. This is a clip from a live event that took place in the spring...when we were sure the pandemic would be over any minute.
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Patrick Glauthier
September 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 54 mins 29 secs
ancient medicine, asclepius, classics, galen, greece, hippocrates, medical history, medicine, philosophy, rome, scicomm, science, scientific history
A conversation with Dr. Patrick Glauthier