Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an organelle First up on the show this week, clinical trials of new and old treatments for Long Covid. Producer Meagan Cantwell is joined by Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel and some of her sources to discuss the difficulties of studying and treating this debilitating disease. People in this segment: · Michael Peluso · Sara Cherry · Shelley Hayden Next: Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Tyler Coale, a postdoctoral scholar in the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Ocean Sciences Department, about what exactly makes an organelle an organelle and why it would be nice to have inhouse nitrogen fixing in your cells. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Meagan Cantwell; Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zof5fvk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	including cancer, COVID, and long COVID, cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
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1:18.8	This is the science podcast for April 12, 24.
1:22.9	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:24.6	First up on the show, researchers are testing drugs and antibodies against
1:29.0	long COVID. Producer Megan Cantwell is joined by staff writer Jennifer Cousin-Frankle,
1:34.7	some researchers, and a patient to discuss the difficulties of studying and treating this
1:39.8	debilitating disease. Next, move over mitochondria. A new organelle called the nitroplast is here.
1:47.0	I talk with researcher Tyler Cole about what exactly makes an organelle an organelle,
1:53.0	and why it would be nice to have something that can fix nitrogen, just living in your cells.
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