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Talking Techniques — 64 episodes

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The BRAIN miniseries | Exploring the neuropathogenesis of HIV and mentoring the next generation of scientists

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The BRAIN miniseries | Investigating the link between vascular health and neurodegeneration in underrepresented populations

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The BRAIN miniseries | Meet the neuroengineer building brain-monitoring devices and thriving communities

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Cytokine networks in autoimmune diseases: mechanisms, pathogenesis and therapeutic innovations

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Skills-based teaching and microcredentialing in STEM

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Antigen validation and T-cell receptor engineering for cancer immunotherapies

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Cytokines: from therapeutics to diagnostics

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Spatial analysis of the immune-cell-surface proteome at a single-cell resolution

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Investigating the neurological pathways underlying vocal communication

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Rare disease and pharmacogenomics

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One man’s waste in another man’s treasure: using wastewater to monitor infectious diseases

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Next-generation antibody therapeutics

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Investigating resistant leukemia with single-cell technologies

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CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies

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Mitochondria, the immune system and cancer: discovering new insights with spatial technologies

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Long-read sequencing, metagenomics and the microbiome

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Open neuroscience and the meaning of FAIR

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Welcome to the jungle: sequencing for conservation

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Neuropixels: big data heaven or burying the lead in averages?

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Microbiome profiling techniques: from immunology to agriculture

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The gut–brain axis and addiction

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3D cell cultures: the latest developments, applications and regulations in the field

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rAAVs, host-cell contamination and ddPCR

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HPV, epigenetics and cancer: sequencing for new insights and to correct healthcare inequality

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Artificial intelligence in healthcare

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Liquid biopsy and cfNAs: driving forward diagnostics and disease research

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The evolution of recombinant antibodies

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The epigenetic clock

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Resolving spatial biology in neuroscience

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Introducing STEM Tea

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Cell proliferation in drug screening

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Synthetic biology: from cancer to the climate crisis

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Establishing an epigenetic lens to explore cancer and infectious diseases

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Target enrichment for NGS: why, how and what's next?

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Producing challenging proteins in the golden age of protein engineering

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The evolution of PCR: From q to dd and beyond

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Molecular therapeutics: how far have we come and what's on the horizon?

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Adeno-associated viral therapies: harnessing the power of HPLC

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Organoids: advancing drug discovery and cancer research

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The ethics of whole-genome sequencing: from race and religion to science fiction

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Revitalizing the western blot

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From space to the streets: infectious disease sampling in extreme conditions and extraordinary circumstances

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Revealing the regulome: using multiomic approaches to explore epigenetics and DNA expression

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The oncolytic Trojan horse: Immune cells, the tumor microenvironment and the invasion of neurons

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Whole-genome-sequencing: navigating the "Diagnostic Odyssey" in rare disease research

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The wonders of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19

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How PCR has prevailed during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Reproducibility in microbiomics

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How can we achieve gender equality in STEM?

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COG-UK: sequencing SARS-CoV-2 and detecting the novel variant B.1.1.7

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COVID-19 diagnostics: which test should you choose?

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Andy Tay: Forbes, awards and championing diversity in STEM

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How has neuroimaging continued and flourished during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The reproducibility crisis: where are we now and how can we progress?

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CRISPR: developing an equitable technology amidst a global pandemic

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Helicopter research and the challenges and misconceptions of research in Africa

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Big data and COVID-19 part 2: Affecting policy and revealing risk

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Big data and COVID-19 part 1: Facilitating and using collaborative, open data

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DNA vaccines: combating cancer and COVID-19

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The sustainable lab: energy efficiency, glass vs plastic and human behavior

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UV LEDs for disinfection and potential protection from SARS-CoV-2

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Rob Vries on organoids for drug discovery and the study of COVID-19

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Donald Ingber: How COVID-19 is changing conservatism in life sciences

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Donald Ingber on COVID-19, organ-on-a-chip technology and the Wyss Institute