Challenges and Advocacy in Science and Politics

Guest: In this episode we bring on Dr. Raja Kittappa, a stem cell scientist who has recently decided to leave science and run for congress. Resources and Links Brain Activation during Human Male Ejaculation Experimental Cancer Drug Reverses Schizophrenia in Adolescent Mice First Synthetic Yeast Chromosome Revealed Party Drug Ketamine Could Help People with Severe Depression Experimental Compound FRAX486 Reverses Signs of Fragile X In Mice Researchers Identify Good Bacteria That Protects against HIV MIT Researchers Develop Living Material Using E. coli Disorganized Cortical Patches Suggest Prenatal Origin of Autism Blood Test of 4 Biomarkers Predicts Death within 5 Years Gene Family Linked To Brain Evolution Implicated in Severity of Autism Symptoms HPV-Linked Throat Cancer May Have Telltale First Symptoms Mugshots Built from DNA Data Genetic Factor Contributes to Forgetfulness Study: Climate Change Accelerates Greenland Ice Loss Gene Editing of CCR5 in Autologous CD4 T Cells of Persons Infected with HIV Human Nose Can Detect More Than 1 Trillion Smells, Scientists Discover Scientists Find Gene Which Is Linked to Exceptionally Low IQ in Children Stem Cell Scientist Guilty of Falsifying Data Ancient Virus DNA Gives Stem Cells the Power to Transform Modeling ALS with iPSCs Reveals that Mutant SOD1 Misregulates Neurofilament Balance in Motor Neurons Intrinsic Membrane Hyperexcitability of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patient-Derived Motor Neurons Telomerase Protects Werner Syndrome Lineage-Specific Stem Cells from Premature Aging Mouse SCNT ESCs Have Lower Somatic Mutation Load Than Syngeneic iPSCs Dynamics of HSPC Repopulation in Nonhuman Primates Revealed by a Decade-Long Clonal-Tracking Study Combined Hydrogels That Switch Human Pluripotent Stem Cells From Self-Renewal to Differentiation Mutations in USP9X Are Associated with X-Linked Intellectual Disability and Disrupt Neuronal Cell Migration and Growth Photo Reference: Courtesy of Dr. Raja Kittappa Subscribe to our newsletter! Never miss updates about new episodes. Subscribe