The Bingeing Brain
The brain chemical serotonin may play a role in binge eating disorder.
Light-Activated Heart Glue
A light-activated glue could improve heart surgery.
Music & Prosthetics
Musical feedback could help veterans with prosthetic limbs re-learn to walk.
Mosquito Sweet Tooth
The mosquito’s sweet tooth could be its Achilles’ heel.
Brain Stimulation for Eating Disorders
An experimental treatment for bulimia nervosa may help restore connections within the brain that influence eating behavior in some patients.
Mosquito Renal Failure
Researchers are trying to develop new insecticides that target mosquitoes' urinary function.
Cooking Spray
How can companies claim that cooking sprays are “fat-free” if the first ingredient is oil?
Safer Cookstoves
Cleaner cookstoves could save millions of lives and slow global warming.
Baby Tooth Cavities
Baby teeth fall out eventually. But that doesn't mean cavities in baby teeth should be ignored.
Podcast for 6 December 2013
LIFE ON THE EGDE - The challenges facing endangered California Condors when they return to the wild. Could armadillos help end blindness? How scientists can tell that sharks really are what they eat. Fuel from the sea. And, unraveling the mysteries of glowing blue slime.
Harmonica Colds
A listener asks if he can reinfect himself with the same cold.
Grapefruit & Medication
Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.
Gluten-Free Foods
Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but only a small portion of the population is truly sensitive to the wheat protein.
Glowing Slime
Glowing blue slime from the sea could be useful in biomedical research.
Algae Biofuel Breakthrough
Scientists have overcome a major challenge in the commercial production of biofuel.
Schizophrenia & Brain Maturation
Some mental illnesses, like schizophrenia, seem to involve overzealous brain maturation.
Mice & Autism
A common drug reverses social deficits and repetitive behaviors in mice with autism-like symptoms.
Armadillo Vision
The armadillo’s poor eyesight is helping researchers understand the genes behind certain forms of blindness.
Podcast for 15 November 2013
YOUNG BRAINS - Just how long does the teenage brain take to mature? How teenagers with autism see things differently. And, scientists reverse autistic-like symptoms in adolescent mice. Also: can you put barcodes on brain cells? And, what casino rats can tell us about gambling addiction.
Wellderly
Researchers are studying the genetic factors that keep a small percentage of us extremely healthy, well into old age.
Teenagers & Autism
Autistic teens and infants at risk for autism share a heightened interest in looking at objects.
Animal Cancer
Cancer affects much of the animal kingdom, and we still have a lot to learn about it.