Not Another Science Podcast

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Welcome to the first episode of our new season! Before we kick off the season properly, we thought we’d introduce ourselves.  We’d also love to meet you all, so be sure to attend the events we’re organising for Welcome Week — more details in the episode, and on our social media. Not Another Science Podcast is edited by Helena Cornu , hosted by Tom Edwick and brought to you by Edinburgh Univer...

The SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic swept around the world in a frighteningly short amount of time. With each news update, the number of affected regions, the number of cases, and the number of deaths climbed. In such a frantic situation,  where the virus was seemingly everywhere, how do you determine how the disease spread through populations and across the world? This is where researchers li...

Drug development is a slow process at the best of times. So the best way to rapidly find treatments for Covid-19 was to find known drugs that could be repurposed to fight the new disease. But with the confusion created by the myriad of studies published about Covid-19, often without peer-review, how do you keep track of everything? This is where Jamie Davies stepped in. His lab created a curated d...

When a pandemic disrupts your 3D printing operations, what do you do? Well, if you’re the team at Augment Bionics, you shift gears and start mass producing Personal Protective Equipment. Augment Bionics is a student start up from the University of Edinburgh, and in normal times their engineers design and print prosthetic limbs. Financed by a GoFundMe campaign, they are currently making 10 000 face...

Why do some people get more sick than others? The answer could lie in our genes.  In this episode we talk to Max Fourman , who is part of the Baillie Lab run by Dr Kenneth Baillie , and based at the Roslin Institute at The University of Edinburgh. They use genomics - the sequencing, study, and mapping of the genome - to search for the genes that make some people more susceptible to disease. T...