Petri Dish

This week on Petri Dish, Sean, Nathan, and special guest Andrei wrap up their discussion on non-nutritive sweeteners by looking at what evidence is out there on potential harmful impacts of these swee...

9 Aug 202152min

Hey everyone! This week's episode continues our discussion on non-nutritive sweeteners! Last week we discussed synthetic sweeteners, the ones made in labs like Sweet N Low or Splenda. But there are sw...

2 Aug 202134min

This first episode in our three-parter on non-nutritive sweeteners is about the artificial stuff, the most-accidental discoveries that led to saccharin, aspartame, sucralose, all the big ones, all the...

26 Jul 202149min

In this final episode of our series on Alzheimer's Disease, we discuss some of the alternate hypotheses for what actually causes and drives progression of Alzheimer's Disease, if not amyloid beta. Wha...

19 Jul 202140min

I don't know if y'all have heard or not, but a month ago the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, the first one in a couple of decades. This approval was met with the resignat...

12 Jul 202153min

One of the top killers of people over the age of 65, Alzheimer's Disease is the target of cutting edge pharmaceutical research and basic science. What do we already know about the symptoms and their b...

5 Jul 202143min

Ad Link: https://omio.sjv.io/c/2544961/1078765/7385 Last week we discussed how someone could go about cloning something, but this week we dive into the WHY. Maybe there is no particularly good reason ...

28 Jun 202144min

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21 Jun 202135min