Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air
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Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 202615 min
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Nature staff discuss an AI tool that can assess the impact of nine billion mutations — plus, how the Bunsen burner’s reputation for sterilization may be based on tradition alone. 00:21 Deepmind’s new tool helps scientists find the impact of mutations Nature: DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all nine billion human gene mutations 07:10 Bacteria can still contaminate plates near to active Bunsen burners Nature: Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of sc...

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Welcome to the Briefing Chat podcast, the Friday show where we talk about a couple of papers that have been highlighted in the Nature briefing, Nature's daily email roundup of the latest science news. And this week I have with me the wonderful Charmony Bundell. Charmony, what have you been reading about this week? So Nick, Nick, you know how genetics is really complicated?

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I am aware of this, yes. Like really complicated, we got all these genes in our body and some of them make proteins and some of them influence the making of the proteins and some of them are like, what are you doing, stretch of DNA?

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Why are you there? We don't know. They're all doing these different things. Well, Google DeepMind have just released an Atlas, a sort of database of predicted effects

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