macrophages

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Our topic today is very scientific, heavy, and wonderful. It's something that I think, as we go through, it's clearly going to open your eyes to understanding the immune system, how the immune system has been misunderstood for quite some time, and the cells that are actually required for our homeostatic optimal function.

So today, we're going to dig into macrophages and all the different types of macrophages within the body. We are analyzing their role in development, homeostasis, and in inflammation. We are also explaining why these cells function the way they do, and why they're super important! 

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Navaz Habib

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JP Errico

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In today’s episode, we are going to dive into digestion and how the vagus nerve is involved in the digestive process. We are also explaining how the nervous system involves in that from an evolutionary standpoint and how our brain and our gut interact with one another.

Digestive sequencing and the process by which we digest our food to get those nutrients into our body is obviously very important for our survival. But how do we make sure that our digestion is functioning really well? 

Stay tuned as we analyze the digestive process and how we evolved to become human in the sense of having our nutrients come into our bloodstream and get through to our cells to create the function that they do!

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Navaz Habib

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JP Errico

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr Elise Cachat, a lecturer in synthetic biology at the University of Edinburgh. We chat about her research and how it can help us to understand the role of immune cells called macrophages in the progression of cancer. We also hear a little bit about an interesting fusion project.