High-altitude bird migration and a news roundup
Science Magazine Podcast
Science Podcast
4.3 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:46.1 | Welcome to the Science Podcast for January 16, 2015. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm Sarah Crespi. |
| 0:52.2 | In this week's show, we have David Grimm up first with some online news stories, and then we hear from Charles Bishop about the altitude |
| 0:55.6 | defying migrations of the geese that fly over the Himalayas. He spoke with Suzanne Bard, |
| 1:02.4 | who'll be filling in for me over the coming months during my maternity leave. |
| 1:06.7 | Support for the Science Podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, advancing science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people. |
| 1:19.4 | Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site. He's here to talk about some recent online stories. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up, we have a story on how our immune systems are shaped over time. |
| 1:31.0 | Let me just start out by saying, and I think I've actually said this before, I love twin |
| 1:35.2 | studies. |
| 1:35.8 | They really solve so many problems. |
| 1:38.1 | In this case, researchers used identical and fraternal twins to look at the role of genetics in the immune system. |
| 1:46.0 | What kind of questions were they asking, Dave? |
| 1:48.2 | Well, Sarah, they were trying to figure out what it is that actually shapes our immune systems. |
| 1:52.9 | Our immune systems are incredibly complicated. They have all these different components, |
| 1:57.6 | different types of cells, different types of proteins. And though everybody sort of has the same basic contingent of this immune army, every soldier between persons is a little |
| 2:07.4 | bit different. You know, some people have some cells that are better at something or proteins |
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