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Episode 48 – The Tyranny of the FACS machine Nov 06, 2025

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In this episode Matt and Kevin welcome special guest Zach Hilt
from the University of Toledo -
we're talking neonatal Tregs!
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Episode 47 - When you're a hammer Oct 23, 2025

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In this episode, Matt and Kevin talk about glycoRNAs and inflammation,
but Matt insists that it's really about Lupus
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Episode 46 – Walk farther and farther to the left Sep 19, 2025

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Matt and Kevin take a humbling look back a classic 1989 immunology paper
from the lab of David Baltimore (RIP)
in which the gene encoding RAG-1,
one of two genes that is responsible for
the VDJ recombination -
a mechanism for the generation of diversity
in the adaptive immune system.
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Episode 45 - Big if true Aug 27, 2025

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Someone made an AI-based "virtual lab" to engineer nanobodies -
is this a paradigm shift in how we do science,
or a transpararent and cynical effort to slurp up all of the citations for being first?
Por que no los dos?
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Episode 44 – Evolution - it's a hell of a drug Aug 11, 2025

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Bacteria have immune systems? Even adaptive immune systems? And autoimmunity?
Well... sort of
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Episode 43 - Why don't you go stain a brain? Jul 21, 2025

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Matt and Kevin discuss a new paper about the "subfornical organ"
which (once again) undermines the idea of immune privilage,
and also points to an interesting evolutionary question:
why would T-cells migrating from fat to the brain affect hunger response?
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Episode 42 – Hypercube in the common parlance Jun 03, 2025

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Think vaccines aren't important?
Kate, Kevin, and Matt discuss a paper modeling just how wrong you are -
that is, unless you don't mind children dying.
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Episode 41 - Sense of adventure May 26, 2025

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Matt and Kevin speak with Abbie Smith,
an assistant professor at Emory's Hope Clinic,
about the current state of American biomedical science.
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Episode 40 – Mohawk Mice, Precious May 21, 2025

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Matt and Kevin discuss an excellent paper showing how skin-regulatory Tregs have a distinct role in protecting hair follicles from autoreactive CD8 T-cells; it’s a really clear illustration of why animal research is critical to advancing our understanding.

Also, for future reference, apparently riverside.fm’s bot transcription cannot distinguish Tregs from T-rex.

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* The paper

* Yes she will, Precious, she will get the hose

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Episode 39 - Ban the Lomb-Scargle May 06, 2025

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I'm certain that what you've really been missing in these dark times
is two guys mansplaining menstruation...but also cool immunology!
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