Cell Podcast

In this edition, we’ll hear about how heritability traits can be inferred from electronic medical records, with Nick Tatonetti and Fernanda Polubriaginof, Cell (00:00); why fiber does wonders for your immune system, with Benjamin Marsland, Immunity (9:56); and what’s behind the high- energy demands of mining Bitcoin, with Alex de Vries, Joule (18:56).

In this edition, we’ll hear about what happens after a mass extinction event (00:00, Current Biology), how cells destroy pathogens without damaging themselves (10:25, Cell Reports), how bacteria can evade our immune system (18:35, Cell Host and Microbe), and a round-up of great science stories from Cell Press this month! (27:27).

In this episode, we’ll hear about when children start to think about their reputations with Ike Silver, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (00:00); an indigenous people in Indonesia whose unusually large spleens enhance their free-diving ability with Melissa Ilardo, Cell (08:56); how the Pan-Cancer Atlas was put together, with Bob Kruger, Deputy Editor of Cell (17:55); and what’s unique about iScience, Cell Press’s newest research journal, with its Lead Editor Stefano Tonzani and Publisher Simanta Buck (24:10). Then, stay tuned for our monthly news roundup, including graphene hair dye, adaptive behaviors in the mouse brain, and improving indoor air quality with plants (32:20).

In this month's Cell Podcast, we cover how a scorpion venom-derived peptide might be used to treat glioma, with Harald Sontheimer (0:00) (Trends in Neurosciences June issue), visualizing the immune system in 3D to monitor inflammation in a whole organism, with Eric Skaar (7:58) (Cell Host and Microbe June 14 issue), and understanding how mothers tolerate the "alien within" during pregnancy, with Alexander Rudensky (14:31) (Cell July 6 issue). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (22:01).

Learn about two new studies identifying a protein complex that helps with intracellular membrane trafficking (start 0:47) and hear how a key cell-cycle regulator that is overexpressed in breast cancer cells is itself regulated (9:35).