Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception

Inquiring Minds

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4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week, we examine a recent discovery that certain types of cancer cells may allow us to better understand how cells adapt to the intracellular environment (and explain what the intracellular environment is). Indre discusses how she and her students have recently been working on methods of measuring creativity. And we look at some new research focusing on the hunting method used by archerfish in order to study aspects of visual perception. Inquiring Minds website Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringmindsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	You and Betty and the Nancy's and Bill's and Joes and Jane's will find in the study of science
0:06.4	a richer, more rewarding life.
0:10.7	Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.
0:14.2	This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.
0:18.2	We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.
0:26.9	It's been a while since we've done one of our up-to-date segments where we check out the latest signs and the news that captures our interest. So, Adam Bristol,
0:39.8	welcome back to inquiring minds. Thanks so much, Indra. It's great to be here. What came across
0:44.2	your desk recently? Well, there's lots of really interesting news in the science world. I have two
0:50.2	papers for you. You know, usually I'm taking us to outer space or having plastic eating
0:56.5	bacteria or something like that. But I have, one is going to be in the animal kingdom and one is
1:02.6	going to be at the cellular level and looking at some interesting cellular processes
1:07.4	and adaptations to the local environment that have heretofore been undiscovered, which
1:13.2	actually creates a whole new class of adaptations. And I'll describe that to you in just a second.
1:19.3	But the first one has to do with fifth.
1:20.6	Wait, wait. The second one seems like that's the dinner. That's the meat. So why don't we
1:25.6	go with that one first and then save dessert for later?
1:27.7	Okay. Well, that's fine. So I think we all remember from our, you know, biology 101 or even before
1:34.0	that the way we make proteins, we have DNA, DNA goes to RNA, RNA goes to protein. And of course,
1:41.2	you have proteins being really a string of these molecules called amino acids.
1:46.6	They're all chained together and then folded like a crumpled piece of paper.
1:50.0	Okay.
1:50.5	And so the amino acids are important.
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