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Hello, and welcome to Emcee Squared!  I’m Sunjum Sanghari, and this episode’s topic will be the recent discovery of a new technique for mapping genetic networks using an improvement to CRISPR-Cas9. This new technique, named CiBER-Seq, can tweak several thousand genes at once to determine their impacts instead of only one at a time, as CRISPR can. With me today I have Dr. Ryan Muller, a graduate student from UC Berkeley who has studied genome sequencing and gene expressions. Dr. Muller and his group of researchers were able to increase CRISPR's efficiency in terms of genome sequencing and gene expression and its prospects for the future.  

Here is a link to Dr. Muller's research paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9662.editor-summary 

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Credits to Dr. Ryan Muller, his research team, and UC Berkeley.

Hi, and welcome to Emcee Squared! On this podcast, you can enjoy deep discussions and interviews about everything science related with the best minds in the field. I’m Vishnu, and this episode’s topic will be Miegakure, a platformer game that works in 4 dimensions. With me today I have Mark ten Bosch, a game developer and the creator of Miegakure.  

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About us: Socratic Studios empowers the scientists of tomorrow by allowing them to communicate the discoveries of today. It's co-founders, Vishnu Veeravalli and Sunjum Sanghari, both sophomores in high school, are science lovers and are on a mission to share their passion with the world.

Hello, and welcome to Emcee Squared! On this podcast, you can enjoy deep discussions and interviews about everything science with the best minds in the field. I'm Sunjum Sanghari, and this episode’s topic will be the recent discovery of a “molecular volume knob” that regulates electrical signals in the brain. The discovery was made in the beginning of November by a group of researchers at Dartmouth University. This discovery could have enormous potential in terms of helping with learning and memory. With me today I have Dr. Michael B Hoppa, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth and the leader of the research team.

Recently, researchers were able to build an electret the size of a single molecule. They were able to demonstrate that this minuscule device could store information, or, in other words, that they could make a memory out of it. We interviewed Mark Reed, a member of the team that made this incredible breakthrough, about what an electret is in the first place, how they got one to work on such a small scale, and what this all means for future technologies.

Concerning the thumbnail: The image depicts ball made out of 60 carbon atoms, known as a buckyball, with an Gadolinium atom inside of it. These two ingredients, as explained by Professor Reed, were the basic constituents of the single molecule electret.

About us: Socratic Media is a science communication company run by students. It's co-founders, Vishnu Veeravalli and Sunjum Sanghari, are both science lovers and are on a mission to share their passion with the world.