Irreverent and entertaining, MIT graduate students Luke and Ed bring you funny, factual, and frightening research happening in the biological sciences. Irreverent and entertaining, MIT graduate students Luke and Ed bring you funny, factual, and frightening research happening in the biological sciences. My Odeo Channel (odeo/273a0764d493d198) biology, WMBR, wine, alcohol, coffee, sex Luke & Ed Luke & Ed biologue@wmbr.org http://www.bioradio.net/ en-us 2007 Luke Thompson & Ed van Veen Getting by with half a brain, healing wounds faster, shark virgin births and DNA, and using Viagra to cure jetlag Luke & Ed 31:04 no Sat, 2 Jun 2007 20:00:00 EDT Stem cells from skin, sleep for memory, touching women to get digits, females who like deep voices, growing meat in the lab, and larks in harmony for defense Luke & Ed 33:44 no Sat, 9 Jun 2007 20:00:00 EDT Extra sleep aids ballers, patenting artificial life, remembering Mr. Wizard, making plastic from plants, personalized medicine, and an alcoholic cure for rheumatoid arthritis Luke & Ed 28:26 no Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:00:00 EDT Men more likely to be bitten, watching others have sex, gene therapy for Parkinson's, first borns are smarter, and the amazing Chilean Spider Bitten! Luke & Ed 29:45 no Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:00:00 EDT Mental retardation breakthrough, urine-powered plankton, biofuels, high notes in the brain, and booting up microbial genomes Luke & Ed 32:15 no Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:00:00 EDT Pheromones trigger brain growth, a drug that erases bad memories, fertility breakthroughs, and jellyfish mucus Luke & Ed 32:18 no Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EDT A drug for smoking and alcoholism, men talk more than women, anger increases argument skills, finger length correlates with abilities, and naked mole rats Luke & Ed 31:34 no Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EDT Music relaxes during colcoscopies, the case of the bouncing oil, overly talking about problems makes them worse, a French man's tiny brain, future treatments for brain tumors, and breaks during exercise help burn more fat Luke & Ed 30:27 no Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EDT Soft drinks may cause heart disease and cancer, new uses for Viagra, religious beliefs promote cooperation, binge drinkers need more omega-3s, and lasers destroy viruses Luke & Ed 30:24 no Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EDT Why people have sex, rethinking HIV virulence, zinc lozenges don't work, and exercise and caffeine ward off skin cancer Luke & Ed 30:19 no Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT Growing liver cells in mice, carbon dioxide-sensing mice, robot jokes, and starving snakes Luke & Ed 28:19 no Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT Breakups aren't as bad as you anticipate, out-of-body experiences, bionic eyes for the blind, and the sonarrific elephantnose fish Luke & Ed 31:40 no Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT Icy joints, viruses may be cause of bee collapse, real-life spider man, resequencing the human genome, a genome within a genome, and evangelicals in bed with scientists Luke & Ed 30:46 no Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EDT Amino acids as addiction treatment, salmon give birth to trout, liberals resist conditioned responses better, and selling species names to the highest bidder Luke & Ed 31:32 no Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EDT Steroids really do help you hit more home runs, sweet and nasty pheromones, losing weight by eating fat, and a (cross-dressing) bug's life Luke & Ed 29:56 no Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EDT Everyone's a little schizophrenic, mammoth hair is full of DNA, Star Trek style microinjections, and solving global warming with tubes Luke & Ed 29:05 no Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EDT The Ig Nobel Prizes, how sugar daddies benefit the human race, and strippers make more when they're ovulating Luke & Ed 30:21 no Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:00:00 EDT Phytoremediation, mouse cloning wins Nobel Prize, and rumors hold more sway than you think Luke & Ed 29:22 no Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:00:00 EDT Circadian and sleep effects on memory, Paris Hilton as analgesia, interspecies toad sex for survival, and what a firm handshake signifies Luke & Ed 30:23 no Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:00:00 EDT Your initials may affect your success, the Australian death adder is a picky eater, ovulating women see men differently, and robots are new rulers of the roaches Luke & Ed 34:41 no Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:00:00 EDT The best things in life are free, zombie cockroaches understood, how to get to the gym more reliably, and oversexed antelopes Luke & Ed 29:49 no Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EDT The truth about humidors and baseballs, gene expression in aroused fish, apes are smarter than college students, and gay fruit flies Luke & Ed 33:23 no Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EDT Where the candidates stand on science issues, magnet therapy may be real, beer goggles in fruit flies, and ESP is not real Luke & Ed 35:50 no Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EDT Learning to forgive may improve your health, biofuels going big, chocolate chip cookies make you shop more, and a new genetic link to autism Luke & Ed 31:04 no Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EDT News highlights from the past week, high prices increase your enjoyment of purchases, sculptors live longer than painters, and gaydar is usually accurate Luke & Ed 30:43 no Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EDT Bill Gates gives $300 million for African dirt, gay couples are as fulfilled as straight couples, female larks who can't decide on the "it" male, and personality type influences self control Luke & Ed 33:28 no Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EDT Lusty voles ignore danger, a "scientific" journal for creationists, blue-eyed people share a common ancestor, and using chocolates to size up testicles Luke & Ed 36:18 no Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EDT The upside to cousin love, obese persons and smokers cost less to treat, the coveted tearless onion, and bollworms evolving resistance to biotech crops Luke & Ed 33:40 no Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EDT Hotties like other hotties, sex determination in lizards is hot stuff, committed people find hotties less hot, and fighting the stress of alcohol withdrawal Luke & Ed 36:18 no Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EDT