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Welcome to the Science Podcast for October 13, 2017.

I'm Sarah Cresby.

In this week's show, Sarah Tishkoff talks with us about genes important in human skin pigmentation.

When do they arise and what have they been up to lately? And David Grimm gives us

this week's hits from our online news site. Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily

news site. He's here to talk about some recent online stories. Our first story is on looking inside of baby's brains.

Dave, why do we need to see inside the head of a baby? Is this a medical need?

Well, there's some really important stuff that happens in the first few weeks of a baby's life

and actually some really important warning signs that you really want to monitor.

You want to monitor

for abnormal brain activity. If the baby's at risk of stroke, you'd want to figure out where the

stroke might be emanating from. But this is really hard to do right now. Right, because they are

wiggly, so you're not going to put them in an fMRI. Right, exactly. You can think, well, why don't

we just use an fMRI?

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