Podcast: Giant virus genetics, human high-altitude adaptations, and quantifying the impact of government-funded science

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude life, and doubts about dark energy with Online News Editor David Grimm. Danielle Li joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study quantifying the impact of government funding on innovation by linking patents to U.S. National Institutes of Health grants. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: artubo/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Thank you. and quote Science Podcast to receive special offers. Welcome to the Science Podcast for April 7, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
0:49.3	Danielle Lee joins us to talk about the fruits of government funding for science by linking NIH grants to patent approvals.
0:56.7	And David Grimm is here to give us the latest hits from our online news.
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1:30.6	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site. He's here to talk about some recent
1:35.7	online stories. First up, we have a story about giant viruses. These guys get a lot of press
1:42.6	because their discovery in 2003 upset a lot of apple carts.
1:47.2	Viruses are supposed to be tiny and have so few genes that they rely on the cellular machinery of their hosts to reproduce.
1:54.1	But giant viruses are bigger than some microbes and can have up to 2,500 genes.
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