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The weekly roundup: Oct 14th
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:02:07
Publish Date: 2016-10-11 19:00:00
Description: This week on Science Today. A recent UCLA study has found that diet and exercise can reduce protein build-ups linked to Alzheimer’s disease in those who have subtle memory loss, but have yet been diagnosed with dementia. "A few years ago, nobody ever thought that you could measure a change with just an exercise intervention, so there are some big advances being made." That’s Alzhiemer’s disease researcher Karen Gylys, who we interviewed recently at UCLA about her own novel work looking at Alzheimer’s disease progression in the synapses. Since the disease is so complicated, Gylys explains it will take more than just one solution to stave it off, but she is bolstered by her work and those of her colleagues’. And at the UC San Francisco, medical students and are excited to be part of a new curriculum called Bridges, gives us a glimpse into what doctors of the future may be like. Dr. Anna Chang, who helped develop the coursework, says they’re basically pioneering the way medical students are being taught. "Never before have 150 first year medical students gone out to the clinical settings and been challenged to answer questions like, what do you see? What ideas do you have? And what can you do to improve the lives of patients? We are giving our medical students a chance to do so from the moment that they step in the door." And materials scientists and mechanical engineer Suveen Mathaudhu of UC Riverside describes how car manufacturers are striving to reduce carbon pollution and improve fuel efficiency by producing cars using lightweight materials without sacrificing strength. Mathaudhu says just the copper cabling alone in the average car, which is used for electrical conductivity, weighs about 300 pounds. "If we could get a fraction of that conductivity in aluminum, it would not only be cheaper to implement, it would be lighter weight. So, one of the interesting things that we can do is we can use nanostructured features in aluminum to maintain the conductivity that it has while boosting the strength of the aluminum." Learn more about University of California research – subscribe to Science Today on iTunes or follow us on Facebook. 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/alzheimers_diet https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/bridges_students https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/cars_lightweight
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