SciFri Radio: Biochemistry

SciFri Radio: New Play Lays Lenin to Rest
A new play looks at two scientists charged, on Stalin's orders, with a serious task -- finding a way to preserve Lenin's corpse for posterity.

SciFri Radio: Gene Doping in Sports
With the Winter Olympics just a week away, we'll talk about a new potential threat to fair competition -- gene doping.

SciFri Radio: Creating Memories
Researchers have used pulses of light to store the memory of a bad event that never actually happened into the brains of fruit flies. We'll talk...

SciFri Radio: Studying Comet Contents
We'll check in with researchers on the Stardust probe, which captured dust from comet Wild-2 in 2004.

SciFri Radio: 50 Years of Pheromones
Fifty years ago this month, the word 'pheromones' was first used in the scientific literature.

SciFri Radio: Fish and Mercury
Eating fish is good for you -- unless the fish contains the heavy metal mercury.

SciFri Radio: Diabetes Research Update
In this segment, we'll get the latest on efforts to control Type 2 diabetes.

SciFri Radio: Diabetes Research News
In this segment, we'll get the latest on efforts to control Type 2 diabetes.

SciFri Radio: Vitamin B3 and Alzheimers
In this segment, we'll hear about new research looking at ways to slow the effects of Alzheimer's.

SciFri Radio: What Put The Heat in Chili Peppers?
New research indicates that chili pepper plants may have developed their signature heat as a way to fight off fungal infections caused by insects.

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Newsbrief: Follow Your Nose
A man's sweat can change a woman's body chemistry.

Newsbrief: Color from Nature
Clothing could get their color—and germ-fighting properties—from a strain of marine bacteria

Newsbrief: Gluing Broken Bones
A tiny sea worm may hold the key to knitting bones without screws.

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