Cell Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
December 2009: Interviews with this year's Nobel Laureates, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan
10 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Emilie Marcus talks with two of this year's Nobel Laureates, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan about their groundbreaking res...
November 2009: Membrane trafficking in cells and regulation in breast cancer cells
19 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about two new studies identifying a protein complex that helps with intracellular membrane trafficking (start 0:47) and hear how a key cell-cycl...
October 2009: How the influenza virus outwits the host immune system, why our ancestors took up farming, and what fruit fly memories are really made of
22 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about a clever way that the influenza virus outwits the host immune system (start 0:47), hear why our ancestors abandoned hunting and fishing an...
September 2009: The mysteries of sleep, the regulation of clock genes and circadian rhythms, and breast cancer risks
24 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Unravel the enduring mysteries of why we sleep (start 0:52), learn about the regulation of clock genes and circadian rhythms (9:45), and hear about a ...
August 2009: An X-chromosome variant that protects against AIDS progression, a microRNA linking normal and cancer stem cells, and how cells move in the worm embryo
27 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about an X chromosome variant that protects against the progression of AIDS (start 0:50), hear about a microRNA that is decreased in both normal...
July 2009: How cancer cells evade detection, genes that keep the genome stable, and new therapeutic targets fortreating tuberculosis
30 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how cancer cells evade detection by macrophages (start 0:46), hear about a screen for genes that keep the genome stable (start 10:37) and new th...
June 2009: Repairing damaged lung tissue, halting liver tumor growth, and RNA as a drug target
18 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how stem cells can repair damaged lung tissue (start 1:04), how delivery of a microRNA to liver tumors in mice halts tumor growth (start 10:25),...
May 2009: Regulatory T cells, developing insulin resistance associated with obesity, and bladder epithelium regeneration after infection with e. coli
21 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how bladder epithelium regenerates after infection (0:53) and which amino acids are involved in developing insulin resistance (9:50). Hear the l...
April 2009: Using stem cell therapy to treat heart disease, a key player in the production of Th17 cells, and a microRNA's role in regulating fly development
23 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about a microRNA that confers robustness on the pathways regulating fly development (start 0:50), the cytokine interleukin-1 which acts as a key...
March 2009: An unexpected pro-apoptotic role for the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor, a cytoplasmic filter in neurons, and a mechanism involved in the oxidative stress response in yeast
26 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about an unexpected pro-apoptotic role for the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor (start 1:22), a cytoplasmic filter in neurons (start 9:35) and an...
February 2009: Melanoma cells eluding signals from a key growth control pathway, how to reprogram cells back to a pluripotent state, and variations in human genes contributing to evolution
26 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about a new study that reveals how human melanoma cells elude signals from a key growth control pathway, how to reprogram cells back to a pluripo...
January 2009: Counteracting climate change with glossy crop leaves, leaky nuclei in aging cells, and how the body keeps cholesterol in check
29 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about a new study that reveals how aging cells end up with leaky nuclei and how the glossy leaves of crop plants may help to counteract global wa...
December 2008: Looking at gene expressions in the brain, the misclassification of the Hawaiian honeyeater, and mutations involved in Diamond-Blackfan anemia
11 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about "TRAP," a new technique for looking at gene expression in the brain and the curious classification of the Hawaiian honeyeater. Yo...
September 2008: A hormone to keep you thin, using dendritic cells to make better vaccines, and how your brain responds to fearful memories
18 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about a lipid hormone made by fat that can keep you thin, and learn from the immunologist who discovered dendritic cells how these enigmatic cell...
June 2008: Stem cell therapy for shiverer mice, a hormone that conserves energy during starvation, and the inner workings of a calcium ion sensor
26 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about a study that brings us a step closer to treating neurological diseases with stem cell therapy and a metabolic hormone that conserves energy...
April 2008: Reprogramming immune B cells, deadly brain tumors, and the insidious pathogen that causes tuberculosis
17 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about reprogramming the body's immune B cells and also what makes brain tumors so deadly. Discover more about the insidious pathogen that cau...
December 2007: An immune molecule that works in the nervous system and a gene important for pigmentation in fish and humans
20 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ben Barres talks about about a molecule in the immune system that is important for eliminating synapses in the nervous system and we hear about a c...
September 2007: A potential new class of bactericidal antibiotics and long distance interactions between chromsomes
06 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Includes interviews with Dr Jim Collins about how several common antibiotics kill bacteria by generating lethal hydroxyl radicals and with Dr Rudi Gro...
June 2007: Switched-off kinases, technologies to transform the research enterprise, and coaxing a human pathogen
14 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Includes interviews with Dr Jonathan Weissman about new technologies that are changing the research enterprise, Dr John Kuriyan about how kinases keep...
March 2007: Making mouse knockouts en masse, the science of sun tanning, and silencing jumping genes
09 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Includes interviews with Dr Francis Collins on the international mouse knockout program, Dr David Fisher on the role of p53 in tanning, and Dr Greg Ha...
December 2006: Cell Highlights
01 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A look back at 2006, featuring interviews with two of this year's Nobel Laureates, Dr Craig Mello and Dr Roger Kornberg, as well as Dr Paul Nurse,...