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Monica Driscoll: Exploring the Wild World Within

Monica Driscoll: Exploring the Wild World Within

FromWe're not getting any younger... yet.


Monica Driscoll: Exploring the Wild World Within

FromWe're not getting any younger... yet.

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Feb 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How do different cells in our bodies age differently? What exactly happens when a neuron takes out its trash? In this episode, neuroscientist Monica Driscoll takes Gordon on a tour through her serendipitous career. Topics include sloppy developmental biology, enigmatic exophers, worms in space, and the importance of studying things no one else is thinking about.Support the show
Released:
Feb 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (21)

Why do some of us age gracefully and others don’t? How do our bodies and minds experience aging at the cellular and molecular level? Why do we even age to begin with? And maybe most importantly, can we do anything about it? Join host Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute in California as he speaks with some of the brightest scientific stars on the planet to search for – and actually find answers to – these questions and many more.