Nature Podcast: 1 June 2017

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

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This week, ‘sticky’ RNA causes disease, disorganised taxonomy, and 'intelligent crowd' peer review.

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0:00.0	Nature.
0:02.0	In a experiment, I didn't know yet.
0:06.0	Why is blight so far?
0:08.0	Like, it sounds so simple.
0:09.0	They had no idea.
0:11.0	But now the data's people.
0:12.0	I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.
0:20.0	Nature.
0:25.6	Welcome back to the Nature podcast. This week, could the review process for scientific papers be made more scientific?
0:30.6	We also meet the scientists who accidentally hit upon an explanation for a whole family of genetic diseases.
0:42.6	And we find out that the scientists whose job it is to classify and organise species,
0:45.1	their world is secretly in chaos.
0:48.2	This is the Nature podcast for June 1st, 2017.
0:49.6	I'm Kerry Smith.
0:50.8	And I'm Adam Levy.
1:09.2	Some genetic diseases, including Huntington's disease, are caused when short DNA sequences are repeated too many times inside particular genes.
1:13.5	How these repeated chunks actually cause disease has been a mystery.
1:18.5	Kerry spoke to a pair of scientists who stumbled on an answer.
1:22.3	It all started with the ice bucket challenge.
1:25.1	Governor, I accept your challenge.
1:27.3	Bring on a bucket.
1:29.0	A couple of years ago, videos of people chucking cold water over themselves went viral on social media.
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