Episode 212: Dormant Disease

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that ancient pathogens emerging from melting ice and permafrost risk eroding ecosystems.</p> <p>--- Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3714/dormant-disease/'>here</a>.   Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011268'>here</a>.    Read ‘Yeast’ by Roddy Lumsden <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54540/yeast'>here</a>. --- Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a> </p>