Longer Pregnancy & Genetics Changes; BioInk Printing Skin; Nuances in reading Studies; Coronavirus is Local...

In this episode, I cover a broad range of topics from pregnancy length and its affect on children's genetics, as well as a new technology that makes printing skin a new therapy possible. Finally, I answer a question/concern a commenter had over why scientists waste their time with "obvious questions". 1:48 - Pregnancy Merid, S.K., Novoloaca, A., Sharp, G.C. et al. Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age. Genome Med 12, 25 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-0716-9 10:37 - Printing Skin Richard Y Cheng, Gertraud Eylert, Jean-Michel Gariepy, Sijin He, Hasan Ahmad, Yizhou Gao, Stefania Priore, Navid Hakimi, Marc G Jeschke, Axel Günther. Handheld instrument for wound-conformal delivery of skin precursor sheets improves healing in full-thickness burns. Biofabrication, 2020; 12 (2): 025002 DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/ab6413 17:03 - Science Wasting Time