LabMatePod - April 2025 

April 2025

'The one about AMR, organic compounds 
on Mars and disappearing teaspoons'

Alan Booth, Senior Editor at Labmate-Online, presents the first-ever episode of the LabMatePod, alongside Jed Thomas,to discuss AMR, rare blood disorders, H5N1, organic compounds found on Mars, and a 20-year-old study about disappearing teaspoons.

The articles discussed in this edition of the podcast were:

• Viewpoint: Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic
• Vaccine escape and zoonotic risk in evolutionary future of H5N1 influenza virus: UNC Charlotte study
• Cracking the code of antibodies in newly identified blood-clotting disorder
• Novel mRNA vaccine shows potential against tuberculosis
• Antibacterial compound found: McMaster team discovers wholly new class of antibiotics
• Parade of pathogens: antimicrobials produced by drug-resistant bacteria kills competitors
• Carbon chain molecules of unprecedented length have been found on Mars: Paper
• ‘The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute’

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LabMatePod is hosted on mainstream podcasting platforms and on Labmate-Online. And it is available for free. If you would like to contribute editorially or support the podcast through sponsorship, please drop me an email at [email protected]. Intro and outro music is: 'Squeezing Orangesidon (Happy Funky Soul Beat)' with credit to Gvidon via Pixabay.

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