Episode 7 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the July 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i07

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, climate change, stem cells, planarians, neuroscience, genetics

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - July 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Quentin Geissmann

Cutting Edge (1:31)

Sparkman, G., Geiger, N. & Weber, E.U. Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half. Nat Commun 13, 4779 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32412-y

Jargon Jungle (8:53)

Thanks to Chris for trying to come on the show! We'll bring you back soon!

Journal Club (11:18)

Issigonis M, Redkar AB, Rozario T, Khan UW, Mejia-Sanchez R, Lapan SW, et al. (2022) A Krüppel-like factor is required for development and regeneration of germline and yolk cells from somatic stem cells in planarians. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001472. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001472

Cell Culture (28:48)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Bite-Size Discoveries (34:12)

Jay P, Tezenas E, Véber A, Giraud T (2022) Sheltering of deleterious mutations explains the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001698

Stone BT, Lin J-Y, Mahmood A, Sanford AJ, Katz DB (2022) LiCl-induced sickness modulates rat gustatory cortical responses. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001537

Bai F, Meyer AS, Martin AE (2022) Neural dynamics differentially encode phrases and sentences during spoken language comprehension. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001713. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001713

Baumgartner ME, Mastrogiannopoulos A, Kucinski I, Langton PF, Piddini E (2022) The Gr64 cluster of gustatory receptors promotes survival and proteostasis of epithelial cells in Drosophila. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001710