01 August 2019: The placental microbiome, and advances in artificial intelligence
Nature Podcast
podcast@nature.com
4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week, whether the placenta is lacking microbes, and new hardware for artificial intelligence.
In this episode:
00:43 Microbe-free placentas?
New research suggests that the placenta is sterile.
Research article: de Goffau et al.; News and Views: No bacteria found in healthy placentas
07:12 Research Highlights
Antacids and allergies, and the source of unexplained radioactivity.
Research Article: Jordakieva et al.; Research Article: Masson et al.
09:13 AI hardware
Making technology for AI can be challenging, so scientists try a new solution.
Research Article: Pei et al.
15:54 News Chat
A worrying spike in HIV drug resistance, and approval of research into human-animal hybrids.
News: Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered; News: Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Whether you're starting or scaling your company's security program, demonstrating top-notch security |
| 0:06.0 | practices and establishing trust is more important than ever. Vanta automates compliance for SOC2, |
| 0:13.4 | ISO-2-2701 and more, saving you time and money while helping you build customer trust. |
| 0:21.0 | Plus, you can streamline security reviews by automating questionnaires and demonstrating |
| 0:26.2 | your security posture with a customer-facing trust center, all powered by Vanta AI. |
| 0:33.0 | Over 7,000 global companies like Atlassian, FlowHealth and Quora, use Vanta to manage risk |
| 0:39.8 | and prove security in real time. Get $1,000 off Vanta when you go to vanta.com slash go. |
| 0:48.4 | That's vanta.com slash GO for $1,000 off. |
| 1:02.6 | In a experiment, I don't know yet. |
| 1:04.5 | Why is it so far? |
| 1:05.7 | Like, it sounds so simple. |
| 1:07.2 | They had no idea. |
| 1:08.5 | But now the data's... I find this not only refreshing, but at some level, astounding. |
| 1:16.2 | Nature. |
| 1:20.1 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 1:22.6 | This week we'll be hearing about the placental microbiome. |
| 1:25.6 | And learning about advances in AI hardware. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Nick Howell and I'm Noah Baker. |
| 1:35.9 | You may think of the microbiome as the collection of microorganisms that live in our gut. |
| 1:45.7 | And that would be right to a point. |
| 1:48.1 | But our gut isn't the only place to host that party of microbes. |
| 1:53.1 | And for the record, the word microbiome specifically refers to the genetic information of those microbes. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from podcast@nature.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of podcast@nature.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.