Daily Discoveries

About Daily Discoveries

Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast about recent science news from around the world, hosted by University of Washington undergraduate students Sanjana Chava, Oskar Haeberlein, and Hayden Henry.

Publisher

The Daily

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Nov 2019

Latest episode

10 May 2023

Latest episodes

80 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 May 2023

   RF Diffusion and Protein Design

   On this episode, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden interview David Juergens and Joe Watson from David Baker’s lab about their recent publication “Broadly applicable and accurate protein design by integrating structure prediction networks and diffusion generative models.” Using the same principles underlying the image-generating software DALL-E, the Baker lab has been able to create software that […]

2. 

   17 Apr 2023

   Assessing Binding Capabilities of s.pneumoniae

   Daily Discoveries is starting off this quarter with an episode about a recent article that discusses how the structure of capsular polysaccharides on bacteria allow them to bind to human cells and cause infection.

3. 

   27 Feb 2023

   Manipulating Microbiomes

   In this episode, Hayden and Sanjana discuss recent advancements in CRISPR-Cas technology that allows for the specific enrichment or depletion of a single bacterial strain in a complex microbial community.

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