Podcasts by N Equals One
N Equals One: a podcast about science and discovery at UC San Diego Health. In each episode, we bring you the story of one project, one discovery or one scientist
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n=49 All the latest on COVID-19 and fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding from 2021-11-10T19:53:26
Despite strong recommendations from the CDC, pregnant people in the U.S. continue to show low vaccination rates against COVID-19. It's been a tough choice for many parents or soon-to-be parents, so...
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n=48 Funding fairness: Racial disparities in research grant funding from 2021-10-01T19:03:52
Academic scientists rely on grants to fund their research, and the largest funder of biomedical research is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Unfortunately, many of the racial inequitie...
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n=47 From landscaping to the lab: David Gonzalez’s journey through academia from 2021-08-11T20:31:43
David Gonzalez, PhD, is an associate professor at UC San Diego, where his lab studies how bacteria affect our health. He’s also a first-generation Mexican-American from San Diego County. Gonzalez, ...
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n=46 Environmental justice: Where COVID-19 meets climate change from 2021-06-08T19:08:52
Climate change and COVID-19 are arguably the two greatest crisis of our time. The other thing they have in common is the fact that they disproportionately affect the same people — primarily underse...
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n=45 A government in COVID-19 denial from 2021-03-23T17:06:51
Despite political risk to researchers and participants, a new study provides the first glimpse into the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on health care workers in Nicaragua, a country where the governmen...
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n=44 Taking a stand for your health from 2020-12-04T18:53:26
More than 5 million people around the world die from causes associated with a lack of physical activity. The news comes as many people have transitioned to working from home, are dealing with local...
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n=43 COVID-19 Vaccines: Our shot at immunity from SARS-CoV-2 from 2020-10-26T19:20:35
Around the world, at least 53 COVID-19 vaccines are currently undergoing clinical trials. Four of the largest and most promising have reached the final Phase III stage. UC San Diego is a testing si...
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n=42 How to prevent a “twindemic” (hint: get your flu shot!) from 2020-10-05T16:56:58
We don’t yet have a vaccine to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but we do have a vaccine for another respiratory virus: influenza. In this episode, inf...
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n=41 What mini-lungs in a dish might tell us about COVID-19 from 2020-09-17T00:49:20
In this episode we speak with Aaron Carlin, MD, PhD, and Sandra Leibel, MD, assistant professors and physician-scientists at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Carlin studies viruses such as Zika vir...
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n=40 The pharmacist will see you now from 2020-08-07T22:58:37
In this episode, Candis Morello, pharmacist and educator at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, shares her career path — inspired by her grandmother's peach t...
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n=39 Science meets art — on a dress from 2019-12-03T00:42:53
By day, postdoctoral researcher Beata Mierzwa, PhD, studies cellular division. By night, she makes clothing — dresses, pants, shoes, backpacks — covered in colorful dividing cells. In this episode,...
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n=38 Medical DNA test vs. consumer genetic analysis from 2019-11-14T23:59:32
Lisa Madlensky, PhD, director of the Family Cancer Genetics Program at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, explains the difference between medical grade DNA tests and consumer genetic anal...
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n=37 Balancing an MD, PhD and advocacy with Alec Calac from 2019-11-01T16:52:44
As a kid, Alec Calac knew he wanted to be a doctor, following in his father's footsteps — but it wasn't until he started college in another state and left his community behind that he discovered hi...
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n=36 Your lungs, high altitude and athletic training from 2019-10-21T18:11:40
Susan Hopkins, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and radiology working to figure out how the lungs work — and in particular, what happens to the lungs under stress. Following a winding road that ...
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n=35 Student-Run Free Clinic: teaching compassion, caring for the underserved from 2019-07-22T12:00:04
Sunny Smith, MD, is co-medical director of UC San Diego School of Medicine's Student-Run Free Clinic, a popular elective that offers free care for San Diego's underserved and provides a unique hand...
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n=34 Join All Of Us from 2019-07-09T16:34:15
For most of history, scientific and medical studies have tended to involve primarily white people, and mostly white men. We now know those findings don’t always apply to people from different genet...
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n=33 Sports med doc heads to Women's World Cup from 2019-06-07T15:00:15
In this episode we talk to Alan Shahtaji, DO, family and sports medicine physician at UC San Diego Health and a team doctor for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. We caught up with Shahtaji on ...
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n=32 Classroom crowdscience competition from 2019-05-14T17:39:38
Trey Ideker and Samson Fong teach a course at UC San Diego School of Medicine called Biological Networks and Biomedicine. It’s designed to introduce graduate students to the concept of network biol...
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n=31 All about endometriosis from 2019-03-28T20:42:57
"Tiny ice skaters on your uterus" is how a patient with endometriosis describes the pain she lived with for nine years before being diagnosed. In this episode, Monica Cain shares her personal journ...
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n=30 Next step in cancer therapy: personalized vaccine? from 2018-12-21T21:10:11
Tamara Strauss, the first patient to enroll in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health to test a personalized vaccine using her unique cancer mutations to ...
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n=29 Cancer survivorship part 2: Cancer doesn’t define you from 2018-10-29T19:48:42
In our previous episode on cancer survivorship, Michelle Brubaker shared her recent cancer journey. In this episode Laurie Knight, a licensed clinical social worker, and Cecilia Kasperick, breast c...
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n=28 Cancer survivorship part 1: A survivor's tale from 2018-10-10T20:54:34
When a person shows no evidence of cancer, they transition into the phase known as "survivorship." While this is a joyous moment, it can also be emotional, says Michelle Brubaker. Only recently has...
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n=27 Clinical trials 101 from 2018-09-25T21:27:36
In this episode, we talk to Kathryn Gold, MD, a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of head, neck and lung cancer, about clinical trials — what they are, why someone might want to p...
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n=26 Retired NICU nurses swap stories from 2018-09-17T16:35:09
We talk to Mary Hackim and Jan Hebert about their 37 year nursing career at UC San Diego Health. They served in a variety of roles in Women&Infant Services, specializing in the neonatal intensive c...
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n=25 Talking neuroscience and #scicomm with Alie Astrocyte from 2018-06-18T17:04:08
In this episode we talk to neuroscience graduate student Alison Caldwell, internet-famous as Alie_Astrocyte on Twitter and Neuro Transmissions on YouTube, about her research, life as a graduate stu...
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n=24 The untold story of congenital syphilis from 2018-03-08T19:35:25
Congenital syphilis has been on the rise since 2001, with a sharp increase in 2014 across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although many may not think...
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n=23 Health care workers help spot human trafficking from 2018-01-25T21:27:41
According to the most recent data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, incidents of trafficking in the United States rose by more than 35 percent in 2016. The thought of human trafficking m...
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n=22 "Minority Report" for cancer from 2017-12-22T18:54:55
In the 2002 science fiction movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise’s character leads a futuristic police unit that prevents crimes based on mutated humans called "precogs" who "previsualize" crimes vi...
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n=21 Powered by chemo from 2017-11-30T23:38:57
Despite a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer and ongoing chemotherapy, Mike Levine competed in one of the most grueling of physical competitions: the Ironman World Championship. When Mike's ca...
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n=20 You’re more than what’s coded in your DNA from 2017-09-07T20:46:43
Your genome is like a recipe book with all the recipes that a cell in your body needs to make the proteins it needs to function. Each of your 10 trillion cells has a full copy of the full recipe bo...
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n=19 How an old asthma drug could be a new diabetes treatment from 2017-08-15T18:17:20
In a recent clinical trial, some patients with type 2 diabetes showed a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose after taking an anti-asthma drug for 12 weeks. Here we talk to Alan Saltiel...
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n=18 Microbes as medicine from 2017-06-28T17:54:57
Here we talk to Richard Gallo, MD, PhD, a dermatologist and researcher whose team recently tested a “microbiome transplant” cream on a small group of eczema patients. People with eczema tend to hav...
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n=17 Century-old drug tested in boys with autism from 2017-05-26T14:33:21
In a small, clinical trial, a single dose of the drug suramin produced measurable, but transient, improvements in five boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, lead researcher Robert K. Navi...
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n=16 Experimental phage therapy saves Tom's life from 2017-04-25T15:35:37
It’s a privilege to share the story of Tom Patterson, PhD, and his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, both faculty members at UC San Diego School of Medicine. In November 2015, they were vacationing i...
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n=15 Quantified Surgery: 3D models personalize procedures long before the first incision from 2017-03-07T20:40:24
For years, computer scientist Larry Smarr, PhD, meticulously monitored and documented almost every aspect of his physiological being, down to the microbial diversity of his colon and its output — a...
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n=14 Changing how your brain senses pain from 2017-03-03T18:01:14
In our last episode, we talked about the pros and cons of opioids for pain management. Here we talk to Mark Wallace, MD, about an alternative method for managing chronic pain — a type of neuromodul...
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n=13 Tale of two crises: chronic pain and opioid abuse from 2017-01-31T18:39:28
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about the U.S.’s opioid addiction epidemic in the news. But chronic pain is an epidemic, too, and sometimes opioids are the best treatment. We talk to expert...
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n=12 What's the deal with e-cigarettes? from 2016-12-08T20:37:20
What are e-cigarettes? How are they different than traditional cigarettes? Are they any better for you? In this episode, Laura Crotty Alexander, MD, a pulmonologist and researcher at UC San Diego S...
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n=11 Brain tumors — what’s old may be new again from 2016-11-10T21:51:53
Tiffany Taylor recently defended her graduate thesis and was awarded a PhD in biomedical sciences. (Congrats, Tiffany!!) In the laboratory of Frank Furnari, PhD, at UC San Diego School of Medicine ...
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n=10 Eating healthy, with a side of science from 2016-10-19T15:59:11
Seems like every day there’s a new food study that contradicts the one before it: eggs are bad, eggs are good; gluten is poison, no red dye is poison – just eat kale! Where’s the science and what d...
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n=9 Cancer immunotherapy part 2: On the cusp of something great from 2016-09-19T21:20:10
In episode 8, we heard from rock star Rikki Rockett about his experience with cancer and immunotherapy. Here, we go deeper on this leading-edge approach, which fights cancer by boosting a patient’s...
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n=8 Cancer immunotherapy part 1: Rock star Rikki Rockett shares his experience from 2016-08-29T22:02:35
In this extra-long, extra personal episode, Heather talks to Rikki Rockett, drummer in the band Poison, on the day he was at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health for a scan that would tell h...
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n=7 Zika virus research takes off from 2016-07-20T23:03:34
Scott and Heather talk to three researchers about all the new information on Zika virus that has emerged in just the past few months — proof that the virus causes microcephaly, a potential explanat...
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n=6 What makes breast milk so special? Interview with "the milk man" from 2016-06-20T18:27:33
Michelle and Melanie learn the science behind the saying “breast is best” from Lars Bode, PhD, associate professor in pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and dedicated athlete-turned-worl...
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n=5 The NEXT BIG THING may be very, very small from 2016-05-20T21:03:33
Yadira and Heather discuss nanomedicine—using tiny particles to deliver diagnostics and therapeutics—and how this approach helps overcome the biggest challenge to health care today: people. They ta...
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n=4 Editing Alzheimer's genes with CRISPR/Cas9 from 2016-04-11T22:41:17
Scott and Heather learn about CRISPR/Cas9, the hot new technique for editing genes. They talk to John Steele, a postdoctoral researcher in Larry Goldstein’s lab in the UC San Diego School of Medici...
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n=3 When antibiotics stop working, what's next? from 2016-02-29T17:48:35
Michelle and Heather talk about a young athlete who recently lost his leg due to an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. How does that happen? Why do antibiotics sometimes fail? What other tre...
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n=2 Stem cells behaving badly from 2016-02-29T17:38:12
Michelle and Heather discuss the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to stem cells -- everything from regenerative medicine and stem cell tourism to cancer. Features Leslie Crews, senior proje...
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n=1 What's living in your poop? from 2016-02-29T17:30:56
In this episode, Scott and Heather talk about the gut microbiome — the unique constellation of microbes living inside you. We also learn about a citizen science initiative called the American Gut P...
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