Oh, hey, it's the half a cookie you forgot you saved from lunch,

Ali Ward, and we're here with a Smologies episode.

If you don't know what Smologies is, Smologies are shorter

kid-friendly episodes that we have cut together and put out

per parental requests for some cleaner versions

that they can listen to with the whole fam. So these are for Smologites, for the small people

in your life or if you've just got to listen to something shorter with a wide

audience who doesn't want to hear me swearing. Okay this episode is great I loved it.

Let's get right into it. Molecular biology so Molecule comes from the Latin

for mass or moles or extremely minute particle and

biology of course is the study of life so molecular biology is the study of the

little itty bitty squiggly intricate structures that keep us alive and breathing and finding off illnesses and falling in love and digesting a pizza.

So molecular biology is how molecules interact with and

how molecules interact with each other to form life processes and how proteins do a lot of our dirty work.

This ologist has been an assistant professor of biology and a STEM

college coordinator for high school students has worked in a private lab

researching cancer cures and is done a TEDx talk and been recognized by Fortune's 40 under 40.

Now I have been a fan of hers for quite a while, so we hopped on a call to talk about

what a molecular biologist does, the grossest parts of her

lab work, protein folding, DNA strands, and more.

With science communicator and molecular biologist,

Dr. Raven, the science maven, Baxter.

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