A compound fed to queen bees in their larval stage could hold some promise in human stem cell research. We'll learn what researchers are hoping to learn from royal jelly. Also, California police accessed databases from popular at-home genetic tests to make breaks in cold cases, raising some ethical concerns about access to our genetic material. We talk about those stories and more with Anna Groves of Discover Magazine.
Links
[1] https://www.wpr.org/programs/central-time
[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/12/05/honey-bee-royal-jelly-human-stem-cells/
[3] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/12/20/gut-microbes-could-soon-diagnose-and-explain-ibs-and-ibd/
[4] https://www.wpr.org/people/rob-ferrett
[5] https://www.wpr.org/people/anna-groves
[6] https://www.wpr.org/people/j-carlisle-larsen