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It's been 25 years since the ACMG was founded. To mark the occasion, GenePod, the podcast of Genetics in Medicine, focuses on the past and the future of the journal. Podcast director Cynthia Graber interviews Dick King and Jim Evans, respectively the journal's founding and current Editors, regarding what's changed, what hasn't, and what we can look forward to over the next 25 years. www.nature.com...

Marijuana use for medical purposes is becoming increasingly common in the U.S., and doctors prescribe it for ills ranging from headaches to insomnia. And yet, there is little scientific data supporting its medical use. In this podcast, Drs. Margaret Haney and Eden Evins discuss the relationship between cannabis use and two psychiatric disorders: post-traumatic stress disorder and psychotic illness...

This week: Science predictions for 2016, the effect of extreme weather on crops, and a new phase of hydrogen for the new year.

This week: Our final show of 2015 – we’re wrapping up the highlights of the year, catching up on the climate meeting in Paris, psyching out the characters in Star Wars, busting some scientific myths, and playing an evolution-themed board game.

This month's GenePod discusses a new study which suggests the incidence of Sickle Cell disease in newborns in Africa and the Middle East may be substantially underestimated. Since we know that early intervention saves lives and reduces morbidity, accurate figures regarding the burden of disease are critical to setting public health priorities. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: The dwarf planet Ceres gets a close-up, using fetal tissue in science, and the wasting condition that worsens outcomes for cancer patients.

This week: The origins of mysterious radio bursts, fixing the PhD system, and tracking down the universe’s missing matter.

This week: What soils do for us, higher resolution ultrasound, Mars getting a ring, GM salmon, and mosquitoes with ‘gene drives’ that prevent malarial transmission.

This week: A nursery for big baby planets, meddling with taste perception, China’s mega water transfer plan, and the 100th anniversary of general relativity.

This week: Storms on Twitter over sexism in science, gene editing, porous liquids, and the long relationship between humans and bees.

This month's GenePod discusses the use of next generation sequencing in newborn screening. The findings of the researchers and their interpretation leave much room for additional research and conversation. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: Spontaneously jumping droplets, growing an economy without trashing the environment, and dealing with an onslaught of data as all our gadgets become internet-enabled.

This week: How cancers spread, the hallmarks of bipolar disorder in the brain, and making carbon dioxide useful.

This month GenePod explores clinical approaches to dealing with the difficult but inevitable problem of how to handle secondary (incidental) findings in genomic analysis. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: A dying solar system just like ours, the effect of temperature on the economy, and electricity-eating bacteria.

this week: C. elegans, the neuroscientists’ favourite worm, has had all its brain cells mapped. Then researchers found 2 more. D’oh! What do they do and how were they missed? Plus: early human migration; simulating a tiny piece of brain on a huge computer; and using vultures as mobile weather stations.

This week: an impenetrable mathematical proof, toggling REM sleep on and off, and the latest results from the Rosetta mission.

This week: the future of digital currency, a new lead for antibiotics, and 25 years of cataloguing the human genome.

Caffeine makes the adult world go round – but could it also be used as a therapy for premature babies? Several studies have suggested that in premature babies with breathing difficulties, caffeine could help stimulate them to breathe on their own and even have a positive effect on their brain development. But by contrast, a new study in Pediatric Research finds that a high dose of caffeine can hav...

This week: looking back at malaria interventions, using private data for research, and how to twist a travelling neutron.

This week: Air pollution deaths, sperm whale languages, climate scientists, hiding nanoparticles, using theatre to communicate the food crisis, detecting gravity waves and anti-venom stocks dwindle in Africa.

This week: Embracing neurodiversity, explaining dark matter, giant frozen viruses, plankton poop ice clouds, safeguarding against quantum hackers and Wikipedia courts scientists. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

It will come as no news to the audience of Genetics in Medicine that keeping up with our field and securing adequate reimbursement is getting harder and harder. At least part of this is a result of our success and reflects the growing relevance of genetics to patient care. In this month's GenePod, the podcast of Genetics in Medicine, this topic is explored with reference to a recent article publis...

This week: Celebrating the 400th Nature Podcast, Earth's two water worlds, weather forecasting, controlling toad populations, how plastic pollution affects seabirds and quantum ‘spookiness’ passes new test. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: The modern scientific revolution, squashing osmium, the search for dark matter, how hummingbirds drink, plasma particle accelerator, a Greenhouse gas loophole and the growing field of urban ecology. www.nature.com/nature/index.html