Ep. 23 Booze and Hangover Science

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01/13/20 • 60 min

Welcome to the first Petri Dish episode recorded in 2020! This one is about the science behind the effects of booze (ethanol), and our current best understanding of what hangovers are and what you can do about them! Would this episode have been more apropos if released closer to New Year's Day? Maybe, but we were all too hung over, so whatever. Tune in for a brief history of alcohol, a discussion of what ethanol does to you, and whether that stuff about a glass of wine a day being good for you is real or not. Do hangover cure IV bangs work? Did you even know that was a thing? What about prairie oysters? Doesn't that sound more like a euphemism for poop than a hangover cure? Tune in!References:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/164_2017_80https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-017-0038-6https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164842/https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2016/mb/c5mb00740bhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623813000774https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/54/3/196/5420612https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cdar/2016/00000009/00000002/art00005 https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/43/2/124/122754https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4460229https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2362.1976.tb00498.xhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452214002851https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41782-017-0008-7https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2275637https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/28aa/8f3c4fdceedb3a6eec5b80e744b71465167a.pdfhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hup.2600https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/fo/c3fo60481khttps://www.hindawi.com/journals/apm/2012/617942/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0741832919300825

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Ep. 22 What is Epigenetics?

In this week's episode, Sean and Nathan are joined by guest Liliana Escobedo to discuss epigenetics, which is either all of the stuff besides your genes that affects the functions of your cells OR non-genetic stuff that happens in your life that can affect your kids and grandkids, depending on what scientists you ask for a definition! Can eating too much food during your lifetime affect your grandkids through your sperm or eggs getting tweaked? Find out this week on Petri Dish!Featuring a promo for the very fun podcast "The Ladies of Strange":"The Ladies of Strange is a comedy podcast where we talk about everything from true crime, paranormal, conspiracy, and anything else we find questionable, odd, or eerie. Sit down with us every Thursday for a story presented by one of the hosts and learn with us that everyone has something they find strange, let us tell you why (sometimes) it’s not." https://theladiesofstrange.com/Questions or issues? Hit us up @dishpodcast on twitter or email us petridishpod-at-gmail.comReferences:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391566/https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/22/23/4726/1162012https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845587/https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.12136https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3695https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2016.106http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/6/5/a022988https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0242-9https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05445-5https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012816363400002Xhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020004/https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-genet-120417-031404https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/prader-willi-syndrome#geneshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707605734https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3695https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.2893https://www.pnas.org/content/111/5/1873.fullhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413116300067https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0242-9https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084952115001305?via%3Dihubhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012816363400002Xhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128132098000091https://jme.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/jme/60/2/JME-17-0189.xmlhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/59https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877818301042http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/6/5/a022988.full

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Ep. 24 Aging and Immortality Part 1

For folks in the USA, happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! This week on Petri Dish Nathan and Sean discuss the biology of aging. What does it actually mean to age, when some animals out there are biologically immortal and get to just hang out forever until they get eaten? What happens on a cellular level when we age? What can we learn from other species about the aging process? This is the first part of a two-part series -- next week we'll discuss human aging in the context of what we can try to do to slow or halt it!References:https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/07/1916548117https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867413006454https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247388/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124714010195https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/12/1904611116https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothobranchius_furzerihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2012.00847.xhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-013-9597-9https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14063https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0539https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201000132https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163714000622https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrniihttps://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/173118https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316303359https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964061/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326690/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047637417300015https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0547-yhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/8/1801.shorthttps://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/4502819/abs/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012411596500006Xhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867416309813