LabMatePod - October 2025

October 2025

‘The one about Ig Nobel winners, biological re-entry and diabetes being shown to double the risk of sepsis’

Alan Booth, Senior Editor at Labmate-Online, presents the latest episode of the LabMatePod, alongside Jed Thomas, to discuss the 35^th edition of the Ig Nobel Prizes, the intersection of rocketry and biotech, and an Australian study that has discovered that type 2 diabetes at least doubles the risk of sepsis.

The articles discussed in this edition of the podcast are titled:

• Ig Nobel prizes 2025: winners, weird ideas and why everything in science matters
• Frontier Space shares results from first European private life-science mission in orbit aboard ATMOS capsule
• Type 2 diabetes found to double risk of sepsis says large Australian study

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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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