Daily Discoveries

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Produced by The Daily UW, Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from the science section. Each week Thelonious Goerz and Rhea John re-cap the material in the science section in one distilled episode.

  • 38 minutes 52 seconds
    RF Diffusion and Protein Design
    On this episode, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden interview David Juergens and Joe Watson from David Baker’s lab about their recent publication “Broadly applicable and accurate protein design by integrating structure prediction networks and diffusion generative models.” Using the same principles underlying the image-generating software DALL-E, the Baker lab has been able to create software that […]
    10 May 2023, 9:03 pm
  • 17 minutes 26 seconds
    Assessing Binding Capabilities of s.pneumoniae
    Daily Discoveries is starting off this quarter with an episode about a recent article that discusses how the structure of capsular polysaccharides on bacteria allow them to bind to human cells and cause infection.
    17 April 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 14 minutes 32 seconds
    Manipulating Microbiomes
    In this episode, Hayden and Sanjana discuss recent advancements in CRISPR-Cas technology that allows for the specific enrichment or depletion of a single bacterial strain in a complex microbial community.
    27 February 2023, 9:27 pm
  • 21 minutes 9 seconds
    Human Cortical Organoids
    This week Sanjana, Oskar, and Hayden discuss a study where an imaging technology was created in order to observe a mouse brain implant over time without disturbing the mouse or the implant.
    16 February 2023, 1:52 am
  • 20 minutes 3 seconds
    Potential Hair Loss Treatment
    In this episode, Hayden, Sanjana, and Oskar discuss a paper that explores potential alopecia treatments using machine learning.
    23 January 2023, 10:31 pm
  • 17 minutes 33 seconds
    Sweet New Discoveries
    Sanjana, Hayden, and Oskar dive into how scientists are turning to the natural world to discover new non-caloric sweeteners
    9 January 2023, 10:00 pm
  • 26 minutes 7 seconds
    Nobel Prize Recap
    This week on Daily Discoveries, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden discuss the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize, and what their discoveries mean for both their fields and science as a whole.
    3 January 2023, 10:23 pm
  • 14 minutes 13 seconds
    Growing Soft Robots
    Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden discuss a new innovation that allows for soft robots to grow by themselves.
    6 December 2022, 11:22 pm
  • 30 minutes
    Cell-based Meat
    In this week’s episode, Sanjana, Oskar, and Hayden explain a study where meat was grown from just a couple of cells, and discuss whether they think it is a solution to eating meat more sustainably.
    15 November 2022, 11:03 pm
  • 20 minutes 17 seconds
    Engineering Sustainability
    This week Sanjana, Hayden, and Oskar discuss a recent cross-disciplinary study transforming CO2 into bioplastics through electrical and biological chemistry.
    4 November 2022, 10:35 pm
  • 33 minutes 20 seconds
    Tackling Antibiotic Resistance
    Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden discuss new advancements in combating antimicrobial resistance, from computational approaches to nanozymes.
    27 October 2022, 7:09 pm
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