Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution

About this episode

This episode discusses how penguins are used to measure environmental PFAS pollution and explores CAR-T therapy for autoimmune diseases.

In this episode: 00:30 The penguins measuring environmental PFAS Science:  Penguins become marine detectives, thanks to pollutant-detecting anklets 05:14 Treating autoimmune diseases with CAR-T Nature:  One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio 10:34 Why an anglerfish’s lure might have two uses Science:  Why do anglerfish have glowing lures? It might be sex Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• PFAS pollution
• penguins
• CAR-T therapy
• autoimmune diseases
• anglerfish
• marine biology

Keywords

• PFAS
• penguins
• CAR-T
• autoimmune diseases
• anglerfish
• marine biology
• pollution
• science news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Springer Nature Limited, Nature, Acast

Places: marine, angling

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