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N Equals One
N Equals One: a podcast about science and discovery at UC San Diego Health. In each episode, we bring you the story of one project, one discovery or one scientist
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n=49 All the latest on COVID-19 and fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding
Despite strong recommendations from the CDC, pregnant people in the U.S. continue to show low vaccination rates against COVID-19. It's been a tough ch...
n=48 Funding fairness: Racial disparities in research grant funding
Academic scientists rely on grants to fund their research, and the largest funder of biomedical research is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NI...
n=47 From landscaping to the lab: David Gonzalez’s journey through academia
David Gonzalez, PhD, is an associate professor at UC San Diego, where his lab studies how bacteria affect our health. He’s also a first-generation Mex...
n=46 Environmental justice: Where COVID-19 meets climate change
Climate change and COVID-19 are arguably the two greatest crisis of our time. The other thing they have in common is the fact that they disproportiona...
n=45 A government in COVID-19 denial
Despite political risk to researchers and participants, a new study provides the first glimpse into the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on health care work...
n=44 Taking a stand for your health
More than 5 million people around the world die from causes associated with a lack of physical activity. The news comes as many people have transition...
n=43 COVID-19 Vaccines: Our shot at immunity from SARS-CoV-2
Around the world, at least 53 COVID-19 vaccines are currently undergoing clinical trials. Four of the largest and most promising have reached the fina...
n=42 How to prevent a “twindemic” (hint: get your flu shot!)
We don’t yet have a vaccine to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but we do have a vaccine for another res...
n=41 What mini-lungs in a dish might tell us about COVID-19
In this episode we speak with Aaron Carlin, MD, PhD, and Sandra Leibel, MD, assistant professors and physician-scientists at UC San Diego School of Me...
n=40 The pharmacist will see you now
In this episode, Candis Morello, pharmacist and educator at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, shares her care...
n=39 Science meets art — on a dress
By day, postdoctoral researcher Beata Mierzwa, PhD, studies cellular division. By night, she makes clothing — dresses, pants, shoes, backpacks — cover...
n=38 Medical DNA test vs. consumer genetic analysis
Lisa Madlensky, PhD, director of the Family Cancer Genetics Program at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, explains the difference between me...
n=37 Balancing an MD, PhD and advocacy with Alec Calac
As a kid, Alec Calac knew he wanted to be a doctor, following in his father's footsteps — but it wasn't until he started college in another state and...
n=36 Your lungs, high altitude and athletic training
Susan Hopkins, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and radiology working to figure out how the lungs work — and in particular, what happens to the lun...
n=35 Student-Run Free Clinic: teaching compassion, caring for the underserved
Sunny Smith, MD, is co-medical director of UC San Diego School of Medicine's Student-Run Free Clinic, a popular elective that offers free care for San...
n=34 Join All Of Us
For most of history, scientific and medical studies have tended to involve primarily white people, and mostly white men. We now know those findings do...
n=33 Sports med doc heads to Women's World Cup
In this episode we talk to Alan Shahtaji, DO, family and sports medicine physician at UC San Diego Health and a team doctor for the U.S. Women’s Natio...
n=32 Classroom crowdscience competition
Trey Ideker and Samson Fong teach a course at UC San Diego School of Medicine called Biological Networks and Biomedicine. It’s designed to introduce g...
n=31 All about endometriosis
"Tiny ice skaters on your uterus" is how a patient with endometriosis describes the pain she lived with for nine years before being diagnosed. In this...
n=29 Cancer survivorship part 2: Cancer doesn’t define you
In our previous episode on cancer survivorship, Michelle Brubaker shared her recent cancer journey. In this episode Laurie Knight, a licensed clinical...
n=28 Cancer survivorship part 1: A survivor's tale
When a person shows no evidence of cancer, they transition into the phase known as "survivorship." While this is a joyous moment, it can also be emoti...
n=27 Clinical trials 101
In this episode, we talk to Kathryn Gold, MD, a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of head, neck and lung cancer, about clinical tria...
n=26 Retired NICU nurses swap stories
We talk to Mary Hackim and Jan Hebert about their 37 year nursing career at UC San Diego Health. They served in a variety of roles in Women & Infant S...
n=25 Talking neuroscience and #scicomm with Alie Astrocyte
In this episode we talk to neuroscience graduate student Alison Caldwell, internet-famous as Alie_Astrocyte on Twitter and Neuro Transmissions on YouT...
n=24 The untold story of congenital syphilis
Congenital syphilis has been on the rise since 2001, with a sharp increase in 2014 across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Cont...
n=23 Health care workers help spot human trafficking
According to the most recent data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, incidents of trafficking in the United States rose by more than 35 perc...
n=22 "Minority Report" for cancer
In the 2002 science fiction movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise’s character leads a futuristic police unit that prevents crimes based on mutated human...
n=21 Powered by chemo
Despite a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer and ongoing chemotherapy, Mike Levine competed in one of the most grueling of physical competitions:...
n=20 You’re more than what’s coded in your DNA
Your genome is like a recipe book with all the recipes that a cell in your body needs to make the proteins it needs to function. Each of your 10 trill...
n=19 How an old asthma drug could be a new diabetes treatment
In a recent clinical trial, some patients with type 2 diabetes showed a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose after taking an anti-asthma...
n=18 Microbes as medicine
Here we talk to Richard Gallo, MD, PhD, a dermatologist and researcher whose team recently tested a “microbiome transplant” cream on a small group of...
n=17 Century-old drug tested in boys with autism
In a small, clinical trial, a single dose of the drug suramin produced measurable, but transient, improvements in five boys with autism spectrum disor...
n=16 Experimental phage therapy saves Tom's life
It’s a privilege to share the story of Tom Patterson, PhD, and his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, both faculty members at UC San Diego School of Medi...
n=15 Quantified Surgery: 3D models personalize procedures long before the first incision
For years, computer scientist Larry Smarr, PhD, meticulously monitored and documented almost every aspect of his physiological being, down to the micr...
n=14 Changing how your brain senses pain
In our last episode, we talked about the pros and cons of opioids for pain management. Here we talk to Mark Wallace, MD, about an alternative method f...
n=13 Tale of two crises: chronic pain and opioid abuse
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about the U.S.’s opioid addiction epidemic in the news. But chronic pain is an epidemic, too, and sometimes op...
n=12 What's the deal with e-cigarettes?
What are e-cigarettes? How are they different than traditional cigarettes? Are they any better for you? In this episode, Laura Crotty Alexander, MD, a...
n=11 Brain tumors — what’s old may be new again
Tiffany Taylor recently defended her graduate thesis and was awarded a PhD in biomedical sciences. (Congrats, Tiffany!!) In the laboratory of Frank Fu...
n=10 Eating healthy, with a side of science
Seems like every day there’s a new food study that contradicts the one before it: eggs are bad, eggs are good; gluten is poison, no red dye is poison...
n=9 Cancer immunotherapy part 2: On the cusp of something great
In episode 8, we heard from rock star Rikki Rockett about his experience with cancer and immunotherapy. Here, we go deeper on this leading-edge approa...