Audiommunity

Insane Clown Posse aside, we know quite a lot about how magnets work. But how they work in animals to sense the earth's magnetic field -- less so.

We were going to talk about gut microbes and pregnancy immunology, but the power grab for government grant-making is taking our whole attention

Crowd control, mobs, and riot shields - we're not talking about US politics, it's about neutrophils!

New spatial 'omics technology that enables capturing *all* the RNA

Can we use a single vaccine against chicken eggs to protect against literally every pathogen out there? Eh, probably not.

Glaaaands - In this episode, Matt and Kevin talk about a new paper describing a new kind of macrophage. Or is it a dendritic cell? Or are categories meaningless?

A retrospective on audiommunity, and some solid rants about the importance of science, science communication, and government funding.

In this episode, Matt and Kevin stick with the brain, this time looking at the immunological implications of a variant of a gene called Apolipoprotein E that has been linked to Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. It's a long one, and we get

In this episode, Matt and Kevin are joined by [Nicole Ackermans](https://nicoleackermans.com) to discuss her recent review paper tracing human thoughts about headbutting from 10,000 BCE to the present day. How are animals like bighorn sheep and woodpecker

In this episode Matt and Kevin welcome special guest Zach Hilt from the University of Toledo - we're talking neonatal Tregs!

In this episode, Matt and Kevin talk about glycoRNAs and inflammation, but Matt insists that it's really about Lupus

Listen now (59 mins) | Matt and Kevin take a humbling look back a classic 1989 immunology paper from the lab of David Baltimore (RIP) in which the gene encoding RAG-1, one of two genes that is responsible for the VDJ recombination - a mechanism for the generation of diversity i

Someone made an AI-based "virtual lab" to engineer nanobodies - is this a paradigm shift in how we do science, or a transpararent and cynical effort to slurp up all of the citations for being first? Por que no los dos?

Bacteria have immune systems? Even adaptive immune systems? And autoimmunity? Well... sort of

Matt and Kevin discuss a new paper about the "subfornical organ" which (once again) undermines the idea of immune privilage, and also points to an interesting evolutionary question: why would T-cells migrating from fat to the brain affect hunger response?

Think vaccines aren't important? Kate, Kevin, and Matt discuss a paper modeling just how wrong you are - that is, unless you don't mind children dying.

Matt and Kevin speak with Abbie Smith, an assistant professor at Emory's Hope Clinic, about the current state of American biomedical science.

Matt and Kevin discuss an excellent paper showing how skin-regulatory Tregs have a distinct role in protecting hair follicles from autoreactive CD8 T-cells.

I'm certain that what you've really been missing in these dark times is two guys mansplaining menstruation...but also cool immunology!

In this episode, we're talking about a strange phenomenon where the immune system seems to intentionally shuttle certain microbes from the gut to lymph nodes and the spleen.