Ep 104: Sleeping Beauties: The mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (with Andreas Wagner)
Big Biologymetabolism, metaphors, genes, talk, enzymes, organism, grasses, latent potential, lineages, evolve, promiscuity, latent, produce, genomes, ability, idea, traits, evolution, book, studied
Ep 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)
Big Biologygenes, cell, organism, mycoplasma, genome, protein, life, synthetic, called, bacteria, minimal, whittle, divides, coli, lab, build, function, biology, put, synthesize
Ep 90: Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (with Charles Piller)
Big Biologygenes, alzheimer, cassava, images, papers, people, amyloid, scientists, called, protein, hypothesis, journals, science, problem, field, manipulations, drug, nih, studies, western blot, western blots
Ep 89: How one gene determines the fate of a food web (with Matt Barbour)
Big Biologygenes, keystone, plant, aphids, variation, allele, species, effects, insects, system, community, starting, thinking, genetic variation, influence, population, experiment, maintained, context, chemical compounds
Ep 87: Life in the lab, are model organisms an asset or impediment to biology? (with Sabina Leonelli and Rachel Ankeny)
Big Biologymodel organisms, organisms, biology, people, model, sabina, species, question, study, genes, human genome project, lab, important, genetic, mouse, scope, research, projects, elegans, work
Ep 79: How the genetic lottery affects complex human traits (with Kathryn Paige Harden)
Big Biologypeople, genes, genetics, phenotype, populations, book, polygenic, snps, plasticity, outcomes, study, human, thinking, terms, human behavior, psychologists, question, biology, norm, evolutionary biologists
Ep 24: Mental Smoke Detectors (Randy Nesse)
Big Biologypeople, evolutionary, emotions, anxiety, genes, depression, psychiatry, person, disorders, find, evolution, called, thinking, question, problem, life, evolutionary biology, medicine, kinds, natural selection
