{"id":657,"date":"2026-03-09T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/?p=657"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:39:49","slug":"why-bladder-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/2026\/03\/09\/why-bladder-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bladder Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, it isn&#8217;t obvious why a scientists chooses to study the topic they have, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0697728\/characters\/nm0000632\/\">genetically engineering seeds out of watermelon<\/a>, for example. Bladder research can sometimes come off that way too &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/OI2Ykllpd9A\">if you&#8217;re young and don&#8217;t realize how life deranging a malfunctioning bladder can be<\/a>. Over the course of about 25 minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/holyshiftresearch.transistor.fm\/\">on the Holy Shift! podcast<\/a>, I make the case to a very general audience why it is important to study the urinary tract, the value of scientific theory, and why we want more smart people working in biomedicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mind Over Bladder | Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow\" width=\"779\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_5AFMb-zhY?start=164&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holyshiftresearch.transistor.fm\/11\">Or get the audio from any of the usual platforms through the transistor page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it isn&#8217;t obvious why a scientists chooses to study the topic they have, like genetically engineering seeds out of watermelon, for example. Bladder research can sometimes come off that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8801,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-press","category-urology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/files\/2026\/03\/Zach-Thumbnail-Square-r1-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danziger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}