We talk quite a bit about airports in the beginning but actually this episode is about CRISPR (yay!), favourite plants (yaaaaaayyy!) and fun stuff (yyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!). It’s a good episode.
Joram’s paper: Decaestecker, W., Andrade Buono, R., Pfeiffer, M., Vangheluwe, N., Jourquin, J., Karimi, M., … Jacobs, T. B. (2019). CRISPR-TSKO: A Technique for Efficient Mutagenesis in Specific Cell Types, Tissues, or Organs in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, tpc.00454.2019.
Tegan’s favourite plant is Gloeomargarita lithophora.
Joram presents the work and life of Enid MacRobbie who pioneered the use of radio tracers to measure fluxes across membranes.
Fun Stuff
Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (The Atlantic)
If The Zombie Apocalypse Happens, This Is Where Scientists Say You Should Go (iflscience)
Plants don’t have feelings and aren’t conscious, a biologist argues (ScienceNews)
Was Heidi the Octopus Really Dreaming? (NY times)
These mysterious vessels are among the world’s oldest baby bottles (ScienceMag)
Plant cells-based biological matrix composites (BioArxiv)
An experimental test of the ovulatory homolog model of female orgasm (PNAS)
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