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Since Aug 2020
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SKRAPS is your podcast where we, on your behalf explore the stories of sparks of scientific brilliance in science and innovation. SKRAPS is the word sparks spelt backwards and also a play on the idea that ideas are written on back of a napkin or scraps of paper. We explore stories of people in science, while elaborating on the scientific details so that experts and non-experts can relate to science better in today's whimsical world that acts to spread mis-information.

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S6E3 And then came the microelectrode...!

Mar 12, 2025 17m

How do we even know what constitutes the heart beat? What was the reason for all those abnormal rhythms of the heart? Why does it happen? The answer lies in the small, cylindrical glass tube called…

S6E2 Sudor Anglicus: The English Sweating Sickness

Feb 24, 2025 22m Transcript

What connects Tudor England, Ann Boleyn, Henry the VIII, autonomic nervous system and a flash mob like wave of a deadly disease? There is only way to find out. Inspired by this paper and Dr. Ali…

S6E1 R.I.P ... CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service

Feb 15, 2025 14m Transcript

This story was inspired by the post on X by Dr. Farsad Mostashari. Center for Disease Control has been at the forefront of many of the alerts (true and false) and now it's officially gone...This is a…

S5E3 Sympathetically, Un-sympathetic

Apr 01, 2023 41m

This is conclusion of the mini-series! In this episode, we uncover the question, is the "cholinergic anti-inflammatory reflex" nerves entirely vagal? The answer is not so straightforward. Building on…

S5E2 The Inflammation

Feb 15, 2023 46m

With the set up of how vagus signalling was deduced by careful and meticulous experiments of Linda Watkins, who built on some amazing results from Hugo Besedovsky, we turn our attention to how the…

S5E1 Las Vagus, Baby!!

Jan 31, 2023 53m

What happens in the vagus, stays in vagus?? Not with us at SKRAPS. “Science Is a Team Sport”If we truly mean this - I mean, really and truly mean that science is a group effort and not the effort of…

S5 Trailer - The Inflammatory Wanderer

Jan 25, 2023 3m Trailer

Can you tell me the last time that you know of that we eulogised and attributed even the most difficult concepts to a single eureka moment? Was it yesterday? Was it last week?Was it last month? We…

S4E14 History of Serotonin - Lessons in how science and innovation works!

Nov 09, 2022 1h 30m

JoJo and Arun are producing some key content that will make you turn your heads in disbelief. Until then, we thought it would be good to get your mind focussed on that wonderful molecule - serotonin…

S4E13 BCI's On The Grill 🥩 - Candid Questions in Bioelectronic Medicines (Part 2)

Nov 01, 2022 1h 22m

What Is a BCI? And just as importantly, what isn’t a BCI?This is an unusual episode and an incredibly fun one. Arun and JoJo enlisted some of the field’s top folks to talk through what’s in and…

S4E12 Why did Merck KGaA venture into Bioelectronics? - Candid Question in Bioelectronic Medicines (Part 1)

Oct 22, 2022 44m

At SKRAPS, we are always looking to get behind the veil of the happenings in the field. We want to go beyond the facade of the news headlines.In recognition of this, we are now reading the slug for…

S4E11 It's time for DANC - “Dynamic ANC (Active "Nerve” Cancellation)”

Oct 03, 2022 1h 10m

Julia Child was a master. She was not a classically trained chef, but pursued cooking as a hobby. Her super power? Passion. A passion for making gastronomy accessible, to deliver an honest and…

S4E10 It's the Second Anniversary of Skraps Podcast

Sep 06, 2022 1h 33m

Skraps is turning two. Or is it our second anniversary? I can't quite decide so let's celebrate both. Join us as we walk down memory lane with some highlights (and hopefully no lowlights) of the past…

S1E9 Our British Podcast Awards Nomination Tape

Jun 23, 2022 31m Bonus

Hello friends and dear listeners, Recently, we were urged by a couple of our British listeners and experienced audio producers in the podcasting space, to nominate our last season’s science…

S4E9 European Innovation Council & NeuroTechnology/MedTech funding

Jun 16, 2022 47m Bonus

Funding for Bioelectronic Medicines does not come from traditional venture capital. It also comes from grant funding agencies. While the most well known grant funding bodies are NIH and DARPA in this…

S4E8 Sleep Apnea: ft. Napoleon, Churchill, Brahms, Stalin & Queen Victoria

May 29, 2022 1h 17m Transcript

“Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone” is a famous quote from the author Anthony Burgess.Sleep Apnea affects 425 million adults over the age of 40. Yet, good treatments are…

S4E7 S4 E7: Investing (exclusively!!) in Bioelectronic Medicines

May 04, 2022 1h 18m Transcript

We are joined by Imran Eba of GlaxoSmithKline's Bioelectronic Medicine fund - Action Potential Venture Capital to talk about investing in Bioelectronic Medicines. APV is the only fund that invests…

S4E6 S4 E6: Research Pioneers ft. Ian Burkhart & Benjamin Stecher

Apr 20, 2022 1h

Most of us can pretty certainly say that we are alone within our heads. We may joke about inner voices, but what really happens when there genuinely is an external influence deep within a brain? The…

S4E5 S4 E5: The Killing

Mar 18, 2022 58m

PUT YOUR HEADPHONES ON! What does a 4 cm long and 25g in weight crustacean have to teach us about Bioelectronic Medicine and human health? And what does its feeding habits have to tell us about how…

S4E4 S4 E4: The Ultrasounds of Silence

Mar 06, 2022 1h 13m

The saying, as grotesque as it might be, goes "there's more than one way to skin a cat." In our case, there's more than one way to stimulate a nerve and we've gathered some experts leading the charge…

S4E3 S4 E3: Basic Bench - Bedside Considerations For Bioelectronic Medicines

Feb 18, 2022 56m

Have you ever wondered what decisions go behind deciding if  a pharmaceutical is to be administered either orally or intravenously or via inhalation. Who decides that? Well, the short answer is that…

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