Podcasts by Base Pairs

Base Pairs

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Base Pairs podcast ?tells? stories that ?convey? the power of genetic information – past and present.

Named among the 2018 Webby Awards’ “five best podcasts in the world” for the subjects of science and education.
Presented the Platinum Award for podcasting by PR News.

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17.5 – Special interview with Yaniv Erlich from 2018-12-27T16:23:02

SPECIAL EPISODE! [We strongly recommend listening to Base Pairs episode 17 to contextualize this extended discussion.]

Some of the most sought after gifts this holiday season are at-home D...

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17 – Genomes, Justice, and the Journey Here from 2018-09-15T13:00:16

Mail-order genetic testing —more accurately known as genotyping— is a growing trend. But what exactly is this data that's send back? And what can people (even law enforcement) DO with that data? Listen

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16.5 – Fuels of the Future from 2018-08-15T14:07:52

Biofuels are the wave of the future, and a small plant called duckweed could be a significant part of that. Hear more from Professor Rob Martienssen about how genetic modification and advances in g...

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16 – Big Plans for a Tiny Plant from 2018-07-15T16:00:04

As concentrations of greenhouse gasses continue to rise, scientists are working hard to develop ways to ween the world off our need for fossil fuels. Biofuels are one promising solution, and they'r...

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15.5 – Cellular Hide and Seek from 2018-06-14T20:43:08

Immunotherapy has been receiving much more attention over the past few years, but the history of this promising type of cancer therapy is a long one. Adding to the story of William Coley’s early im...

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15 – The Immune System, Unleashed from 2018-05-15T15:28:16

You may have heard of it; "immunotherapy" has started to appear in headlines over the last few years. In this episode, however, we reveal that the practice of cancer immunotherapy is actually far o...

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14.5 – Medicine and Mad Scientists from 2018-04-13T20:42:59

It’s important to know that a drug works, but knowing how it works can be just as crucial. CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer discovered that the hypothesis explaining the action of a new cancer drug was i...

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From the hosts: An exciting update! from 2018-04-06T17:11:51

Base Pairs was just named among the 2018 Webby Award’s “five best podcasts in the world” for the subjects of science and education. Now, WE NEED YOUR HELP to take home the People's Voice award?
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14 - The Cancer Answer That Wasn't from 2018-03-15T18:41:03

We look at the "reproducibility crisis" in science, and dive into a case in which cancer researchers discovered something completely unexpected while experimenting with a supposed drug target.

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13 – A Lesson in Class from 2017-12-15T15:08:31

No, we're not talking about high society or your biology class! In this episode, we share three distinct stories about classification in the life sciences and how genetic information is changing ho...

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12.5 - Big Decisions from 2017-11-15T12:53:40

Who will use CRISPR to alter their child's DNA? Who gets to decide which traits are desirable? Following up on our last episode, "Good Genes, Bad Science," we hear from David Micklos, executive dir...

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12 - Good Genes, Bad Science from 2017-10-13T20:57:58

In the early 1900s, American science took a wrong turn toward eugenics. In this episode, we talk with experts in both science and history about what we can learn from this dark period in today’s ag...

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11.5 - What Silicon Valley and Biology Research Share from 2017-09-15T16:25:09

A few favorite moments from our talk with theoretical physicist and quantitative biologist, Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal, that touch on topics ranging from his stint in medical schoo...

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11 – Biology, Behind the Screens from 2017-08-14T22:44:02

A "behind the screens" look at how biology is addressing its "most wonderful problem" – too much data. Associate Professor Gurinder S. "Mickey" Atwal joins us to explain the essential enigma that i...

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10.5 – Tomato Baby and its Family from 2017-07-14T21:42:34

Plant scientist Zachary Lippman tells stories from the field of bizarre tomatoes, intensely hot peppers, and giant pumpkins in this latest "chat" episode of Base Pairs.

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10 – CRISPR vs Climate Change from 2017-06-14T20:55:06

Much of the hype around the genome editing tool known as CRISPR focuses on its potential to cure genetic diseases. But our bodies need more than a healthy genome to survive and thrive—they also nee...

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9.5 – Redefining Biologists, Redefining Genes from 2017-05-15T16:01:49

Set aside your notions of how biologists are born, or what the word “gene” means as you listen to our first chat episode. We talk with Assistant Professor Molly Hammell, a genome biologist who star...

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9 – Dark Matter of the Genome (part 2) from 2017-04-14T18:43:03

One scientist’s junk is apparently everyone’s treasure! They just haven’t realized it yet. . . In this episode of Base Pairs, we question the mythos that is “junk DNA” and explore how and why scie...

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8 – Dark Matter of the Genome (part 1) from 2017-03-14T20:47:42

Could “genome” be a misnomer? The name implies that our genetic information is mainly genes, yet when the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it revealed that genes comprise a tiny minority...

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0 – Molecules and a Mission from 2017-01-27T21:09:20

We are Base Pairs, the podcast about "the power of genetic information." But why did we choose this name? In this bonus episode, we explain the molecules and the metaphor.

Pictured: Tin mo...

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7 – The Brain Atlas from 2016-12-14T21:14:13

One in six people suffers from a mental disorder, and yet, compared to cancer and infectious disease, neuropsychiatric treatment options have barely improved since the 1950s. But why is that? In th...

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6 - When Antioxidants are Pro-cancer from 2016-11-14T20:17:45

Fighting cancer is so difficult in part because the healthy cells we want to support often end up casualties in the crossfire of toxic treatments. This episode is about how we might overcome this o...

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5 - Sink or Swim from 2016-10-14T18:10:17

Professor Adrian Krainer was offered the opportunity to run his own lab when he was just 27 years old as part of a brand new “Fellows” program—which allowed him, in his words, to “sink or swim.” Th...

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4 - The People Problem from 2016-09-15T15:04:25

Nearly ten billion people will walk the Earth by 2050, and for some of the poorest and fastest growing countries, that could mean a bleak and hungry future.

Dr Josef Schmidhuber of the FAO...

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3 - Non-modern Family from 2016-08-15T14:23:14

From the scale of a single ancient murder victim to interactions between large groups of humans and Neanderthals who lived 100,000 years ago, genetic information holds many secrets about human hist...

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2 - Corn Controversy from 2016-07-15T14:15:07

The ongoing GMO labeling debate wasn't the first agricultural controversy. In the early 1900s, it was a new and so-called "wicked" breeding technique that had everyone on edge.

In this epi...

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1 - From Phages to Faces from 2016-06-08T16:49:03

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's first fully-produced podcast series! Base Pairs ?tells? stories that ?convey? the power of genetic information — past and present.

This pilot episode exemp...

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