Right Turn: A proliferating list of popular podcasts

Podcasts have been around since the 1980s and with 250,000 unique podcasts in more than 100 languages, according to Apple, you can probably find one that covers any topic you care to search for.

Back in 2014, Lisa Willemse encouraged Signals’ readers to tune in to The Stem Cell Podcast and I mentioned them last year when they featured George Daley on their 50^th episode. But new podcast possibilities keep popping up! Whether you’re a long-time listener to the genre or you’ve stalled since Serial’s season two finale, it may be time to expand your horizons.

Here are some podcasts on regenerative medicine, biotechnology and more, in no particular order, that you might enjoy.

• McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine: http://www.regenerativemedicinetoday.com/
• The Nature Medicine Podcast: http://www.nature.com/nm/podcast/index.html
• A roundup of medical podcasts: https://player.fm/featured/medicine
• N Equals One by UC San Diego Health: https://health.ucsd.edu/news/Pages/Podcasts.aspx
• Biotechnology Focus: http://biotechnologyfocus.ca/category/podcast/
• Nature Biotechnology’s First Rounders Podcast: http://www.nature.com/nbt/podcast/index.html
• A roundup of biotech podcasts: https://player.fm/featured/biotech
• Canada 2020 (on federal politics): http://canada2020.ca/briefremarks/
• CBC (on everything): http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/

Luke Timmerman, a Forbes writer, offers this list of 10 Podcasts for the Biotech, Health & Science Crowd.

I leave you with this podcast featuring Samantha Yammine, a neuroscientist and enthusiastic science communicator, who describes her research on brain development and stem cell biology in the lab of Derek van der Kooy, University of Toronto, and talks about her “scicomm” efforts. Samantha is being interviewed by Doctor Mike and Dr. Karen Ring on the SciComm podcast. (Click on Samantha’s photo to be taken to the podcast.) What would you add to the list? Please comment below.

Samantha Yammine

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Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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