How a Plant Gene Ended Up in an Insect’s DNA

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Learn about “brain fog” in menopause; NASA’s patent prevalence; and a plant gene found in an insect for the first time.

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People Working On NASA Projects Rack Up Every One In 1,000 Patents by Joanie Faletto

NASA - NASA Engineers and Scientists-Transforming Dreams Into Reality. (2014). Nasa.gov. https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/scientists.html
Home | NASA Spinoff. (2021). Nasa.gov. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
40 Years of NASA Spinoff. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff
Memory Foam Supports and Shapes in Women’s Apparel | NASA Spinoff. (2019). Nasa.gov. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/cg_4.html

A plant gene was found in an insect for the first time by Cameron Duke

Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/cp-pg031721.php
Xia, J., Guo, Z., Yang, Z., Han, H., Wang, S., Xu, H., Yang, X., Yang, F., Wu, Q., Xie, W., Zhou, X., Dermauw, W., Turlings, T. C. J., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Whitefly hijacks a plant detoxification gene that neutralizes plant toxins. Cell, 184(7), 1693-1705.e17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.014

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.9	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how
0:09.4	menopause affects the brain with Dr. Jen Gunter. Then you learn about the surprising
0:14.3	number of patents racked up by people working on NASA projects and how researchers
0:19.3	found a plant gene in an insect for the first time.
0:23.0	What satisfy some curiosity?
0:25.0	Yesterday, Dr. Jen Gunter told us about the biology behind some of the most common symptoms
0:30.3	of metapause.
0:31.8	Today she's going to tell us about some of the lesser known symptoms,
0:35.3	symptoms that happen in the brain. Dr. Jen Gunter is an OBGYN and pain medicine specialist
0:41.3	who's been called the world's most famous and outspoken
0:44.2	gynecologist.
0:45.8	In her new book, The Menopause Manifesto, Dr. Jen counters stubborn myths and misunderstandings
0:51.0	about menopause with hard facts, real science, fascinating historical
0:54.8	perspective, and expert advice.
0:57.4	And I asked her, what are the most surprising symptoms of menopause?
1:02.1	Well I think lack of sleep is discussed but it's not discussed enough
1:05.3	and so insomnia certainly is a big one and unfortunately insomnia increases with
1:10.4	age as well so sometimes that can be a double whammy. A lot of women
1:14.3	mention they have a brain fog and they're menopause transition and it's really
1:19.0	interesting that's actually been studied and the best way to summarize it is there's a slowing down of the
1:25.4	ability to take in new data right it's not actually a loss of brain cells you're
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