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Hello everyone!  Thank you so much for listening to our episode today on The Climate Change Crisis!  It's a tough pill to swallow, but we have some work to do to save our planet! I invited onto the show James @bio_boy, an avid climate warrior, to share some insight into the current crisis and to help give a balanced review to the sea documentary Seaspiracy.  We hope you enjoyed!  Please reach out to us: Instagram- @controlandvariable Twitter- @sonia_shinhmar @bio_boy   ..read more

Hi all! It's just me, Sonia, today!  Thank you so much everyone who still follows the podcast! We know we haven't been very consistent and tbh it's been quite hard juggling PhD work, paper writing and organising new guests the past few weeks! Especially as it's exam season! But as they say, all good things to those who wait!  This week I was sent a fantastic article from a friend about DNA encapsulation within glass nano-balls, where the DNA has been synthetically made to store data! https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/06/honoured-by-european-inventor-award.html Hav ..read more

Hi everyone!  This episode resulted in a lot of tears for me! We recorded this episode 3 times due to my computer freaking out!!!  We discussed the rest of Chapter 10 from Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez, we still cannot recommend this book to read enough! Sarah found a very interesting piece on the benefits of green areas to urban living (living in the city- not how old people use the word urban) and we invited Asma Al Husari on the podcast to discuss her career move into nutrition and health! We loved hearing about her perceptions of nutrition and how these have changed si ..read more

In today's episode Sonia and Sarah are discussing part one of the tenth chapter of 'Invisible women' By Caroline Criado Perez. This chapter focusses on the lack of sufficient testing and knowledge of female health and diseases. Due to the length of this chapter and the numerous topics to discuss, this segment has been split in half with more information being shared in the next episode!  Sarah found an interesting article about horizontal gene transfer between plants and white flies resulting in their resistance to secondary metabolites of plants that would usually ensure their survival ..read more

Hey all!  Thank you to all of our listeners from series 1, we appreciate you all so much!  This episode marks the first episode of series 2, where Sarah gives us a book review of 'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks', where we discuss the source of HeLa cells that have been used in so many research projects leading to the production of vaccines such as the HPV vaccine as well as the ethical concerns to the origins of such cells! Sonia discusses the theory of tertiary vaccine doses and we interview Harpreet Shinhmar, a PhD student at UCL investigating Red light therapy in the context ..read more

HEY ALL! Can you believe it's been a year since we started this podcast?! And yes, we know we've been a little inconsistent with releasing episodes- but we're students and therefore we're letting ourselves believe we can be late! Thank you to all of our listeners, near, far and wide! We appreciate you all so much!  Anywhooo... we took a short trip down memory lane and discussed our previous episodes, what we have enjoyed and the guests we have interviewed! We also manifested the idea of interviewing @fryRsquared, @profbriancox and I forgot to mention my favourite author @angelasaini altho ..read more

Hi everyone!  A special thank you to every single one of our listeners, especially those of you from different countries around the world!  This episode Sarah and Sonia discuss using bread as a scaffold for cell and tissue culture and how encouraging cell metabolism in ageing cells shows repair against neurodegeneration!  We were joined by Dr Versha Prakash, a RHUL alum who took her skills and passion for the future of science to Arctoris as their Head of Partnerships. We discussed the idea of institutionalisation, representation in science and, of course, the stupidest thing sh ..read more

Hi everyone!  This week Sonia talks about Race science (what's new??) and Sarah explains why we have such dark eye circles whilst admiring how COVID has left her looking her best!!!! Is there such thing as a COVID glow up???  We were also kindly joined by Tamsin Williams, a PhD student at RHUL looking at nematodes and sports field health! Definitely a topic we never knew existed! It was a great conversation and we not only wish Tamsin the best for the rest of her PhD but we hope she finds the time to come back on the podcast soon!  We hope you're all doing well and staying safe ..read more

Hey Listeners!  We hope you're all feeling positive and testing negative!  In this fortnight's episode, Sarah discusses declining penguin populations, Sonia discusses substance abuse drugs and we interview another research inspiration. We are very excited, of course, to be joined by Professor Ranjit Lall, a Professor (yes we’re officially getting more professional!) of clinical trials and biostatistics at Warwick University, she is also the associate director of stats there! We discussed her journey into research and her love for Maths as well as top tips for living life! We thorough ..read more