Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 12m
Activity Sporadic
Since Aug 2023
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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About This Podcast

The words used in science can be perplexing. Join host Erin Merritt and her guests as they uncover their meaning and the positive impact and value of the science behind them.

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Recent Episodes

S3E4 Neurodegeneration

Apr 11, 2025 19m

What happens when the cells of the nervous system, which are called neurons, die? As approximately 86 billion of these cells are found in the brain, spinal cord, and throughout the body, their…

S3E3 Generic Drugs

Mar 07, 2025 13m

Generic pharmaceuticals make up nine out of every 10 prescriptions in the United States and in 2025 drugs for COPD, hypertension, high cholesterol, cancer, and many other disease conditions have…

S3E2 Antimicrobial Resistance

Feb 10, 2025 13m

There are potentially billions of different types of bacteria, which are found almost everywhere. Some are friends while others are foes. For the few microbes that have the potential to make you…

S3E1 Agnostic Detection

Jan 13, 2025 12m

New pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi are emerging at an unprecedented rate and spreading faster than ever before. This makes the ability to detect these threats – even unknown ones –…

S2E10 Environmental Exposure

Sep 20, 2024 9m

Chemicals are all around us, from the foods we eat to flame retardants in the carpet. But how do we know that they're safe? In this episode with Dr. Kristin Aillon, we discuss the data that supports…

S2E8 Fentanyl

Jul 15, 2024 13m

The majority of synthetic opioid overdose deaths in 2023 were due to one drug – fentanyl. On this episode, we discuss why it's so potent, the scale of the problem, and how MRIGlobal is helping first…

S2E7 CRISPR

Jun 12, 2024 14m

Research scientists are putting CRISPR gene editing to work in agriculture, diagnostics, disease therapeutics, and even in the fight against climate change. Dr. Julie Lucas offers insight into why…

S2E6 Sleep

May 09, 2024 22m

Sleep is an incredibly important process that involves multiple states and stages, each with different functions for health. It is also not a single homogeneous state, but a period that involves the…

S2E5 Field Forward

Apr 18, 2024 13m

Infectious diseases can emerge from anywhere in the world, and when they do, it's critical that officials are prepared with detection and diagnostic methods for use in environments that have space,…

S2E4 Point of Need

Mar 12, 2024 11m

Have you ever swabbed inside your nose and used that sample to help diagnose if you have the flu or COVID-19? Or maybe you peed on a pregnancy test. The technology that makes those and other…

S2E3 Synthetic Biology

Feb 09, 2024 13m

Picture this: a toolkit of standardized genetic components, a canvas of principles borrowed from engineering, and the artistry of constructing biological systems with unprecedented functions.…

S2E2 Chemical Threats

Jan 12, 2024 14m

On the warfront or home front, chemical weapons are a threat. Working with government and commercial customers, we specialize in evaluating equipment to detect, decontaminate, and mitigate these…

S2E1 Bacteriophages

Jan 05, 2024 15m

You are host to the deadliest viruses in the world. Researcher Kristin Bates offers insight into bacteriophages, how they are such effective killers of bacteria, why they could be so effective in…

S1E6 Biologics

Nov 10, 2023 11m

Gene therapies, immune modulators, cell therapies and monoclonal antibodies, and even some vaccines are biologics. They are critically important in treating diseases that presently have no other…

S1E5 Tuberculosis

Nov 01, 2023 13m

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tuberculosis was the leading infectious disease killer in the world. The pandemic then had a devastating impact on the diagnosis, treatment, and research of…

S1E4 Live Attenuated Vaccines (part 2 of 2)

Oct 16, 2023 11m

Live attenuated vaccines, a technology that has existed for more than 100 years, can be uniquely suited to protect against particular diseases. Virologist and immunologist Dr. Christopher Weiss…

S1E3 Live Attenuated Vaccines (part 1 of 2)

Oct 03, 2023 12m

Vaccines are developed and administered to prime an immune response that either prevents or lessens disease severity when a microorganism is encountered in the future. As a virologist and…

S1E2 Repository

Aug 23, 2023 11m

Before therapeutic pharmaceuticals go into clinical trial to ensure their safety, they must be received from the manufacturer and precisely stored and managed and then shipped to their destination…

S1E1 mRNA Vaccines

Aug 23, 2023 9m

Dr. Luca Popescu is a veterinarian turned global infectious disease expert who is focused on testing medical countermeasures like vaccines and therapeutics in response to infectious diseases. We…

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