The Real Science Podcast

Who wants to go to the International Space Station well better start saving your pennies also how reasonable are floating cities and how come no one talks about them anymore and finally what if everyone could be a universal blood donor well that might be possible soon ISS Tourists https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-opens-international-space-station-to-new-commercial-opportunities-private Floating Cities https://oceanix.org/ Universal Donor https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/type-blood-converted-universal-donor-blood-help-bacterial-enzymes

In this weeks episode corporate lobbying pisses me off and why we need to know about organizations that muddy the waters of science. How there could be an end to tuberculosis in the future and why researchers and people on YouTube are shocking their brains. Check out the links below for the sources. Crispr babies https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/06/03/crispr-baby-mutation-significantly-increases-mortality/ Corporate lobbyists https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-019-0478-6 Tuberculosis https://www.pnas.org/content/116/21/10510 Brain shocks http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00409%5Cnhttp://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00409 Patreon Link https://www.patreon.com/Scifixion

This week I talk about a recent court order to allow for the use of sperm in IVF from the body of a dead West Point Cadet. I also talk about the recent SpaceX launch of the StarLink satellite system and finally I talk about Washington states new human composting law. Dead Sperm https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/nyregion/west-point-cadet-sperm-grandchild.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur Space Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/science/spacex-launch.html Human Composting https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-composting-legal-trnd/index.html Patreon Link https://www.patreon.com/Scifixion

What good is a Synthetic Genome and is this synthetic life? Also how can Ecstasy be used to treat people with PTSD when it is a schedule 1 drug? Lastly there are renewed privacy concerns over police using GEDmatch to identify a suspect. Synthetic Genome https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1192-5 MDMA Therapy https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05249-5 GEDmatch Privacy https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/genetic-genealogy-parabon-gedmatch-assault Patreon Link https://www.patreon.com/Scifixion

This week I talk about the issues with sperm donors and DNA tests calling out fertility doctors who used their own sperm. I also talk about the issue of Duty of care for DNA testing, and finally I talk about a possibly the first body farm in the UK and some of the usefulness and issues around body farms. Sperm Donor https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-woman-seeks-change-law-dna-test-reveals/story?id=62809127 Medical DNA issues https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/medical-dna-sequencing-leads-lawsuits-and-legal-questions Body Farm https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01436-8 Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/Scifixion

In the first episode of the Real Science Podcast I talk about transposons in corn, memory recall and transmissible cancer if you like the show please subscribe or support me on patreon Corn Transposon http://www.plantcell.org/lookup/doi/10.1105/tpc.18.00546 Memory Recall https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/16/300913 Transmissible Cancer https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(18)30539-7 Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/Scifixion