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Episode 88: July 2023

In this episode, we hear about a natural climate-change experiment, the placebo effect in personalised medicine, ancestry and skin pigmentation, friendship and mental health, and the ovarian immune system.
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Episode 88: July 2023
Sebastian Pena Lambarri (CC0)

Chapters

  1. 0:36
    Feel the heat
    Warmer water makes fish grow faster in a natural climate-change experiment.
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  2. 7:08
    Personalising the placebo effect
    Telling patients a treatment has been personalised can increase the placebo effect
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  3. 12:29
    Genetics and skin pigmentation
    Exploring the relationship between ancestry and human skin pigmentation.
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  4. 17:19
    Friendship and mental health in adolescents
    Five is the ideal number when it comes to close friends
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  5. 23:03
    Immunity in ageing ovaries
    Immune cells in the ovaries of mice become less inflammatory with age
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