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Welcome to the science podcast for February 16, 2018. I'm Sarah Cresby. In this week's show, David Grimm talks about genes that turn on after death and what we can learn from their activity.

And David Johns talks about the so-called sugar conspiracy and how it doesn't quite hold up to a close examination of the history of nutrition policy in the U.S.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about what happens to us after we die.

Welcome, Dave.

Hey, sir.

Okay, so finally we know what happens after we die.

Well, we know what happens to our genes.

Right, okay.

So this is about what genes do when we're no longer alive. The researchers in this

case were looking at gene regulation in different tissues, living tissue, dead tissue, preserved

tissue. Why were they doing that in the first place? Well, you know, they're part of this study.

This is called this, it's called a genotype tissue expression pilot, which is a large consortium

of geneticists and milk and biologists. They've been measuring gene activity in tissues consortium of geneticists and molecular biologists.

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