Why Scientists Are Reanimating Spider Corpses For Research

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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That spider you squished? It could have been used for science! Today, we're bringing you Halloween a little early – Short Wave style! Host Regina G. Barber talks to Anil Oza about the scientists reanimating dead spiders: How they do it and why this might one day become a cheap, green way to do delicate science.

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0:30.0	Hey, sure waivers. Today, just a week before Halloween, we wanted to bring you some spooky
0:36.8	science. And to do just that, we brought back reporter extraordinaire, Anil Oza. Hey,
0:42.8	Anil.
0:43.8	Hi, Gina. We're starting this horror story shortwave style in a lab.
0:47.4	Uh, I have great memories in labs.
0:50.0	Yeah. And so does Fayette. She was packing up boxes with machines and notebooks and everything
0:54.8	when she saw something.
0:56.2	A creepy shadow.
0:57.7	Not quite.
0:58.7	We were noticing that there were dead spiders that were curled up in the corner of the corridor.
1:04.6	Spiders?
1:05.6	Yes, spiders.
1:06.6	I'm sure you've seen dead spiders like this one in the corners of this deserted lab
1:09.2	on their back with their legs curled in towards themselves.
1:12.2	Yep.
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