17 October 2019: Mapping childhood mortality, and evolving ‘de novo’ genes
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🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week, investigating child mortality rates at a local level, and building genes from non-coding DNA.
In this episode:
00:43 A regional view of childhood mortality
Researchers map countries' progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Developmental Goals.
Research Article: Burstein et al.; World View: Data on child deaths are a call for justice; Editorial: Protect the census
07:22 Research Highlights
Astronomers identify a second visitor from beyond the solar system, and extreme snowfall stifles animal breeding in Greenland.
Research Highlight: The comet that came in from interstellar space; Research Highlight: Extreme winter leads to an Arctic reproductive collapse
09:22 Evolving genes from the ground up
Natural selection's creative way to evolve new genes.
News Feature: How evolution builds genes from scratch
15:43 News Chat
A spate of vaping-related deaths in the US, and Japan’s import of the Ebola virus.
News: Scientists chase cause of mysterious vaping illness as death toll rises; News: Why Japan imported Ebola ahead of the 2020 Olympics
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination. |
| 0:12.1 | Not a care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.1 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel. |
| 0:22.6 | And on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.2 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.2 | In an experiment, I don't know yet. |
| 0:38.3 | Why is it like so far? |
| 0:40.3 | Like it sounds so simple. |
| 0:41.3 | They had no idea. |
| 0:43.3 | But now the data's... |
| 0:44.3 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding. |
| 0:52.3 | Nature. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. Nature. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 1:01.2 | This week, mapping childhood mortality. |
| 1:03.0 | And de novo genes. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm Chamonie Bundell. |
| 1:05.8 | And I'm Benjamin Thompson. Thank you. In 2015, the United Nations adopted targets known as the Sustainable Development Goals. |
| 1:22.6 | These were intended, in the words of the UN, to ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity |
| 1:29.3 | by 2030. |
| 1:31.5 | One of the UN's targets was to end preventable child deaths by 2030, a laudable but ambitious target. |
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