Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home

Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home

This week's episode comes with a warning: don't attempt this at home. While self-experimentation has led to many a scientific breakthrough, we're definitely not advocating it. But it happened to work out for the best for Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, even earning them a Nobel prize. That’s right folks, today we’re talking about none other than Helicobacter pylori, the curvy little bacterium identified only a few decades ago to be a causative agent of peptic ulcer disease, a major risk factor in the development of gastric cancer, and a fierce warrior who can survive the harshest of environments: your stomach.

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Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)

Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)

Imagine this: a sickness where millions fell into a deep slumber from which they never woke. Of those that did, many remained trapped in a cage of their own bodies, unable to move or speak but fully a...

25 Kesä 20191h 27min

Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

On this very special crossover episode with our friend Matt Candeias from In Defense of Plants, we’re switching things up from poison to remedy, focusing on the plant-derived wonder drug, aspirin! We ...

11 Kesä 20191h 19min

Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

Were you stoked about the history and biology of vaccines we covered in part 1, but left with even more questions? Were you really hoping to hear us talk about anti-vaccine sentiment and address misco...

21 Touko 20192h 13min

Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

The wait is finally over: this week we are very excited to bring you the episode we’ve been teasing for weeks: vaccines! This week and next (you don’t have to wait a full two weeks for the next episod...

14 Touko 20192h 4min

Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!

Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!

This bug deserves a big round of applause and not just because it’s nicknamed “The Clap”. Check out this week’s episode to gasp in wonder at the tricks that Neisseria gonorrhoeae uses to tiptoe past y...

30 Huhti 201958min

Ep 24 Zika: Rumors and Rumours

Ep 24 Zika: Rumors and Rumours

Zika virus may not have as long and storied a history as many diseases we've covered, but in a short time it has managed to make a big impression. Today we'll talk about how Zika wriggled its way out ...

16 Huhti 20191h 5min

Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms

Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms

Today we’re taking a bite out of hookworm, our first macroparasite. We start, as all hookworm journeys must, from the dewy grass, where larvae burrow into your exposed flesh and make their long and wi...

2 Huhti 20191h 11min

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