Podcast: Building a portable drug factory, mapping yeast globally, and watching cliffs crumble

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers, sunlight-induced rockfalls, and the tiniest gravity sensor. Andrea Adamo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a revolutionary way of making drugs using a portable, on-demand, and reconfigurable drug factory. [Image: Tom Evans] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.6	Thank you. and quote Science Podcast to receive special offers. Welcome to the Science Podcast for April 1st, 2016.
0:46.7	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:48.3	In this week's show, Andrea Adamo talks about shrinking pharmaceutical factories.
0:53.5	And David Grimm is here with a roundup of
0:55.6	stories from our daily news site.
1:01.6	And now a brief technical note and thanks. I really want to thank our listeners who called
1:07.7	and wrote for their help diagnosing a problem with downloading the podcast on mobile devices.
1:14.0	The problem is fixed. So thanks again, and now you know, contacting us works. If you ever want to get in touch,
1:22.2	write to us at Science Podcast at a AAS.org.
1:30.2	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:34.0	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:36.5	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:37.9	First up, we have a story on the spread of yeast around the globe.
1:42.8	As humans have populated the planet, we've brought many things to
1:47.1	new lands. Animals, food, and yes, yeast. The study we're going to talk about today looks
1:53.3	specifically at the spread of the yeast Saccharomycese serviciae. And I can actually say this
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