April 19, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Episode 94 Chlamydia: Double Trouble With this episode, you’re getting much more than you probably bargained for, thanks to the quirks of Chlamydia trachomatis. This small but […]
March 29, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Special Episode: Electricity While last week’s episode covered ample ground when it came to lightning strikes, there is so much more to the world of […]
March 22, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Episode 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half) Lightning strikes have an aura of myth and legend around them, and their mystical reputation is inflated by stories that tell of […]
March 15, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Special Episode: Epstein-Barr Virus In last week’s episode, we explored the mysterious world of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the ongoing quest to determine what causes this […]
March 8, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Episode 92 Multiple Sclerosis: Scarred nerves & skating saints Like many autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis so clearly illustrates how detection and description of a disease only gets us so far when […]
March 1, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Special Episode: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus We ended our myxoma virus episode on a bit of a cliffhanger, briefly alluding to the emergence of another deadly rabbit virus […]
February 22, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Episode 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole Invasive rabbits so numerous they form a “gray blanket” across the land. A killer virus, intentionally released to keep the bunnies at […]
February 15, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development Our episode last week ended on a hopeful note, a rare occurrence for this podcast, and it was due in large part […]
February 8, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Episode 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack Here on the podcast, we’re no strangers to multi-host parasites with complicated life cycles, intricate ecologies and dense human histories. But human […]
February 1, 2022January 9, 2024Season 5 Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination Blood tests and liver function results can only tell us part of the story when it comes to the impact that hepatitis […]