Dietary Supplements, Head Lice, and HeLa Cell Gemone

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Title: Dietary Supplements, Head Lice, and HeLa Cell Genome Welcome to Double X Science for August 9, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor. Our topics cover posts since out last podcast: The gummy deficiency http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gummy-deficiency/ Scientific Realities Trump Paleofantasy http://www.doublexscience.org/paleofantasies-are-trumped-by-scientific-realities/ The gift of depression and mood disorder http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gift-of-depression-and-mood-disorder/ Back to School Fact-check: Head Lice http://www.doublexscience.org/back-to-school-fact-check-head-lice/ Smoke signals cancer’s edges in surgery http://www.doublexscience.org/iknife-excises-uncertainty-in-tumor-resection/ Double X Science, Jr. posts: Professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/professor-elizabeth-h-blackburn.html Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/laser-light-amplification-by-stimulated.html Use of Cesium for Wildlife Tracking http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/use-of-cesium-for-wildlife-tracking.html News of the week was about the mapping of the HeLa cell line genome. The two articles discussed in the podcast are: http://www.nature.com/news/deal-done-over-hela-cell-line-1.13511 http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2013/03/24/the-henrietta-lacks-genome-consent-trust-and-common-decency/ Please visit http://doublexscience.podomatic.com/ for more information. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.