This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.

Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital to

advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology, neuroscience, and

artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. Morgan State

University, a Baltimore, Maryland,

Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution, offers more than 100 academic programs and awards

degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of

growing the future leading the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

and eight new national centers of excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1

designation in the next five years.

To learn more about Morgan and their

ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research. This is the science podcast for December 24th,

2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, all year long, we share the most

interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. And it's our last

podcast of the year. And we have fun stuff that's also from science and the sister journals. First

online news editor, David Grimm, brings the top online stories of the year, from headless slugs to dice and spears.

Then researcher Tibor Harkini talks with me about marijuana research.

Pot has been legalized in many places, and many people are taking cannabinoids.

What do we know about the mechanisms of these molecules inside of people?

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