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The weekly roundup - Sept 23
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:01:48
Publish Date: 2016-09-22 19:00:00
Description: This week on Science Today. It’s been 20 years since two UC San Francisco physicians proposed a new kind of doctor – a hospitalist – which is basically a generalist who specializes in inpatient care. Dr. Steve Pantilat was hired at UCSF as a hospitalist in 1996. And while I may be dating myself, I first interviewed Pantilat not long after. Then, about three years after his hire, he founded one of the nation’s first hospital-based palliative care programs at UCSF. Recently, I asked what motivated him at the time. "I had this longstanding interest in ethics and what I liked about palliative care is that it took the ethics and really brought it to the care of patients in a very real way." Palliative care has been the focus of Pantilat’s career ever since. Meanwhile, at the Berkeley Lab, physical chemist Kevin Wilson has been focused on the clouds – his lab simulated the microphysics of how cloud droplets form. "We hope that we can develop more accurate predictions that ultimately can go into models, climate models, that hopefully long term, will give us more accurate predictions of the kinds of climate change processing we might expect in the future." And have you heard of the American Gut Project? This is a crowdcsourced, crowdfunded citizen science project co-founded by Rob Knight of UC San Diego. The project allows anyone to see what their microbiome looks like. "At the moment, I should point out that the benefit is primarily in terms of scientific knowledge and just understanding what makes a difference to your microbiome and what doesn’t. But as an increasing number of diseases get linked to the microbiome, it’s possible that in the future, we’ll be able to develop tests for particular diseases that are based on the microbiome." Don’t miss these and other episodes about University of California research – subscribe to UC Science Today on iTunes or follow us on Soundcloud. Thanks for listening. I’m Larissa Branin. Subscribe to Science Today: iTunes: apple.co/1TQBewD Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/science-today Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ucsciencetoday Stories mentioned in this roundup: https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/the_hospitalist https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/cloud_microphysics https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/american_gut
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