Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this week’s show: Portable MRI scanners could revolutionize medical imaging, and pheromones offer a way to control flies that spread disease First up this week: shrinking MRI machines. Staff Writer Adrian Cho talks with host Sarah Crespi about how engineers and physicists are teaming up to make MRI machines smaller and cheaper. Next up on the show, the smell of tsetse fly love. Producer Kevin McLean talks with Shimaa Ebrahim, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University, about understanding how tsetse flies use odors to attract one another and how this can be used to prevent the flies from transmitting diseases such as African sleeping sickness. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast [Image: GEOFFREY ATTARDO/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: tsetse fly with podcast symbol overlay] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Adrian Cho Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh3128 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.0	This is a science podcast for February 24, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, shrinking MRI
1:26.4	machines. Staff writer Adrian Cho was here to talk about how engineers and physicists are teeming up
1:32.7	to make MRI scanners smaller and cheaper.
1:36.3	Next, the smell of Tietzzi Fly Love.
1:39.1	Producer Kevin McLean talks with researcher Shima Abraham about how Tietzzi flies use odors to attract each other and how
1:46.3	understanding this interaction can help prevent the flies from transmitting diseases like African
1:51.6	sleeping sickness. MRI machines are expensive in the range of a million, two million dollars each. They're also
2:03.6	pretty big. You go to the machine. It's not going to come to you, no matter how incapacitated
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