On today’s episode: This year’s been big for advances in cancer vaccines! Good chocolate might be all about the right bacteria. If you DON’T think bats are terrifying animals… you just wait… We didn’t invent booze, and we’re not the only species consuming it. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/progress-cancer-vaccines-really
• https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-vaccine-pancreatic-cancer.html
• https://ufhealth.org/news/2025/surprising-finding-could-pave-way-for-universal-cancer-vaccine
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
• What makes chocolate taste so good? It’s the microbes
• Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
• In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day - Berkeley News

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Could long COVID be caused by reviving latent infections? Food allergies in children have been decreasing… but why? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Could Hidden Infections Be Fueling Long COVID? | Rutgers University.
• Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy | American Academy of Pediatrics
• Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy | NEJM
• Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics
• Early Peanut Exposure May Explain Fall in Child Allergies—But Is It Safe? | Newsweek
• Food Allergy Management and Prevention Support Tool for Infants and Toddlers
• Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies | PBS

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: Scientists found sugar on space rocks! If you think no one knows how to chew right, you might have misophonia. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
• https://www.soquiet.org/misophonia-survey
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9180704/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.841816/full
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6034066/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.