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Episode 37: March 2017

In this episode we hear about helping people with paralysis to communicate, how exposing mice to nicotine can affect their sons, scaffold-building parasites, the origins of handedness and plain-language summaries of research.
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Episode 37: March 2017

Chapters

  1. 0:33
    Brain power
    Sensors on the surface of the brain help paralysed people to communicate.
    This chapter is based on the following content
    • Research Article by Chethan Pandarinath, Paul Nuyujukian ... Jaimie M Henderson
  2. 6:21
    Like father, like son
    Exposing male mice to nicotine can make their sons more resistant to nicotine and other drugs.
    This chapter is based on the following content
  3. 12:26
    Combatting toxoplasmosis
    A parasite called Toxoplasma gondii builds a scaffold inside human and other animal cells to help it multiply and cause disease.
    This chapter is based on the following content
  4. 17:52
    Left or right?
    Handedness has its origins in the spinal cord.
    This chapter is based on the following content
    • Research Article by Sebastian Ocklenburg, Judith Schmitz ... Onur Güntürkün
  5. 23:14
    Spread the word
    Plain-language summaries are making research more accessible to broader audiences.

Related

    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface

    Chethan Pandarinath, Paul Nuyujukian ... Jaimie M Henderson
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Paternal nicotine exposure alters hepatic xenobiotic metabolism in offspring

    Markus P Vallaster, Shweta Kukreja ... Oliver J Rando
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Toxoplasma gondii F-actin forms an extensive filamentous network required for material exchange and parasite maturation

    Javier Periz, Jamie Whitelaw ... Markus Meissner
    1. Neuroscience

    Epigenetic regulation of lateralized fetal spinal gene expression underlies hemispheric asymmetries

    Sebastian Ocklenburg, Judith Schmitz ... Onur Güntürkün

  5. Plain-language Summaries of Research: Writing for different readers

    Peter Rodgers