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Ep 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)

Big BiologyDecember 15, 2022genes, cell, organism, mycoplasma, genome, protein, life, synthetic, called, bacteria, minimal, whittle, divides, coli, lab, build, function, biology, put, synthesize

Ep 91: How stealth organs make super soldier ants (with Rajee Rajakumar)

Big BiologyNovember 3, 2022ants, phenotypes, soldiers, development, tissue, colony, species, plasticity, workers, morphology, cast, super soldier, developmental, army ants, cells, wing, called, head, organism, rudimentary

Ep 90: Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (with Charles Piller)

Big BiologyOctober 20, 2022genes, alzheimer, cassava, images, papers, people, amyloid, scientists, called, protein, hypothesis, journals, science, problem, field, manipulations, drug, nih, studies, western blot, western blots

Ep 75: Hidden network: The evolutionary relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants (with Toby Kiers)

Big BiologyJanuary 6, 2022networks, fungi, fungal, plants, phosphorus, nitrogen, fungus, host, resources, nutrients, genotypes, called, soil, trade, system, evolve, form, root, legumes, cooperation

Ep 24: Mental Smoke Detectors (Randy Nesse)

Big BiologySeptember 12, 2019people, evolutionary, emotions, anxiety, genes, depression, psychiatry, person, disorders, find, evolution, called, thinking, question, problem, life, evolutionary biology, medicine, kinds, natural selection