New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer
Science Magazine Podcast
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4.3 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution, |
| 0:05.0 | offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels, |
| 0:12.0 | is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world. |
| 0:16.0 | Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment. |
| 0:20.0 | With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, |
| 0:25.7 | and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years. |
| 0:33.7 | To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research. |
| 0:40.5 | This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools. |
| 0:48.1 | Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City. |
| 0:55.7 | It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in |
| 1:02.0 | many fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, |
| 1:08.8 | cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. |
| 1:12.6 | The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. |
| 1:22.5 | Welcome to the science podcast for August 27, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we feature the most interesting |
| 1:29.7 | news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, news intern |
| 1:35.1 | Rachel Fritz discusses a new way to think about endometriosis, a painful condition in which tissue |
| 1:41.0 | that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus and it can bind to other organs. |
| 1:47.1 | Next, researcher Raphael Townsend talks about predicting how RNA will fold into 3D shapes using deep learning. |
| 1:54.3 | This is a machine learning approach that relies on very few examples and limited data. |
| 1:59.6 | Finally, in this month's edition of our limited series |
| 2:02.0 | on race and science, host Angela Saney is joined by author Lundy Braun to discuss her book, |
| 2:08.1 | Breathing Race Into the Machine, The Surprising Career of the Sparometer, from Plantation to Genetics. |
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