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Zika immunity and falling body temperatures
Episode 62

Zika immunity and falling body temperatures

Why antibodies to the infection disappear, and why we're cooler today than we used to be...

The eLife Podcast

February 6, 202035m 56s

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Show Notes

Have these paralysed patients helped to reveal the brain basis of why we gesticulate when we talk? Also, new insights into how the body clock keeps track of the seasons, signs that immunity to Zika virus wanes with time, why human body temperature is lower than it was 150 years ago, and diversity in science: how can we better hold on to rare talent? Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Topics

body temperaturezika virus immunityseasonal affective disorderSADSgesticulationhand movementsBRAINspeechdiversityunderrepresented groupsjennie evansjulie parsonnetsergey staviskyAlasdair Hendersonmarcus lambertlinnie golightly