In this episode, we will talk about the Covid-19 and its danger not only to the elderly but also to the middle-aged adults. We will also talk about its effect on the brain which was not fully studied before. Next, we will talk about the disadvantages of the vegan diet for children, the production of wood, meat and bone in the lab and the discovery of giant worms. Finally, we will talk about the defence mechanism of snakes against other venomous snakes and the reason Saturn has a tilted axis.
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The papers reviewed in this podcast:
1. Andrew T. Levin, William P. Hanage, Nana Owusu-Boaitey, Kensington B. Cochran, Seamus P. Walsh, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz. Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications. European Journal of Epidemiology, 2020; 35 (12): 1123 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-020-00698-1
2. Pratima Kumari, Hussin A. Rothan, Janhavi P. Natekar, Shannon Stone, Heather Pathak, Philip G. Strate, Komal Arora, Margo A. Brinton, Mukesh Kumar. Neuroinvasion and Encephalitis Following Intranasal Inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18-hACE2 Mice. Viruses, 2021; 13 (1): 132 DOI: 10.3390/v13010132
3. Topi Hovinen, Liisa Korkalo, Riitta Freese, Essi Skaffari, Pirjo Isohanni, Mikko Niemi, Jaakko Nevalainen, Helena Gylling, Nicola Zamboni, Maijaliisa Erkkola, Anu Suomalainen. Vegan diet in young children remodels metabolism and challenges the statuses of essential nutrients. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2021; DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202013492
4. Ashley L. Beckwith, Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Luis F. Velásquez-García. Tunable plant-based materials via in vitro cell culture using a Zinnia elegans model. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021; 288: 125571 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125571
5. Alireza Shahin-Shamsabadi, P. Ravi Selvaganapathy. Engineering Murine Adipocytes and Skeletal Muscle Cells in Meat-like Constructs Using Self-Assembled Layer-by-Layer Biofabrication: A Platform for Development of Cultivated Meat. Cells Tissues Organs, 2021; 1 DOI: 10.1159/000511764
6. Sara Romanazzo, Thomas Gregory Molley, Stephanie Nemec, Kang Lin, Rakib Sheikh, John Justin Gooding, Boyang Wan, Qing Li, Kristopher Alan Kilian, Iman Roohani. Synthetic Bone‐Like Structures Through Omnidirectional Ceramic Bioprinting in Cell Suspensions. Advanced Functional Materials, 2021; 2008216 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202008216
7. Yu-Yen Pan, Masakazu Nara, Ludvig Löwemark, Olmo Miguez-Salas, Björn Gunnarson, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Tzu-Tung Chen, Shahin E. Dashtgard. The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan. Scientific Reports, 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0
8. Richard J. Harris, Bryan G. Fry. Electrostatic resistance to alpha-neurotoxins conferred by charge reversal mutations in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021; 288 (1942): 20202703 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2703
9. Melaine Saillenfest, Giacomo Lari, Gwenaël Boué. The large obliquity of Saturn explained by the fast migration of Titan. Nature Astronomy, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01284-x
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