Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from sleepy people, malaria hiding out in deer, and making squishable bots based on cockroaches. Corinne Simonti joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss whether Neandertal DNA in the human genome is helping or hurting. Read the related research in Science. [Image: Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
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1:19.7	Welcome to the science podcast for February 12, 2016.
1:21.3	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:26.7	In this week's show, Corrine Samanti talks about inheriting DNA from Neanderthals and how that might affect one's health.
1:29.6	And David Grimm is back with the latest from our online daily news site.
1:36.9	Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1:47.2	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:50.9	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:53.2	I'm Sarah Crespi.
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