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Nature Podcast

Starting up in science: Episode 3

Nature Podcast

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Science, Technology, News

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Episode 3


As newly-minted principal investigators, Ali and Dan have grand plans for their research – but science is slow, especially when other demands loom large: hiring staff, mentoring and teaching students and, of course, the race to secure funding.


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Allie 12-Trees is on her way to the physics department, carrying an icebox full of proteins.

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So is this a journey you have to do multiple times a day then?

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It can be, yeah.

1:14.9

No more than twice.

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I try to make it no more or twice.

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The proteins in the cooler are motor proteins taken from neurons,

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where they shuttle cargo up and down to keep the cells healthy.

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if she can make out their shapes under a special microscope. So we're just walking up past

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the microscope is.

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