Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth
This episode is a co-production with Lost Women of Science . Agnes Pockels did pioneering work in surface science. Her invention, the Pockel...
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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
Alexis Pedrick joins Katie Hafner to bring you an episode from The Lost Women of Science Initiative , a non-profit educational organization...
The CRISPR Babies
In 2018 news broke that a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had used CRISPR to edit human embryos, and twin girls had been born as a result. Th...
Humans and Monsters: An Interview with Surekha Davies
The fears about genetic engineering were stoked when experiments took off in the 1970s. From lab leaks to disease epidemics to the ability t...
IVF: An Interview with Robin Marantz
Our producer Rigoberto Hernandez spoke with Robin Marantz, the author of Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproduc...
Gene Therapy's Families
When Rebekah and Evan Lockard's daughter, Naomi, was diagnosed with a devastating ultra-rare genetic disease, they didn't know where to turn...
Gene Therapy's Dark Ages
Gene therapy is based on a simple-sounding, yet deceptively complicated premise: adding or replacing faulty genes to fix medical problems. A...
'The Andromeda Strain': An Interview with Luis Campos
Producer Mariel Carr talks to historian of science and former Science History Institute fellow, Luis Campos , about his article " Strains of...
The People vs. Recombinant DNA
In 1976, Harvard University wanted to build a specialized lab for recombinant DNA research. But first, it had to get permission from the cit...
Science, Interrupted: Part 2
Genetic engineering breakthroughs in the late 1960s and early 1970s came with a lot of promise—and peril too. Fears about what could happen...
Science, Interrupted: Part 1
Genetic engineering breakthroughs in the late 1960s and early 1970s came with a lot of promise—and peril too. Fears about what could happen...
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The History of the School Lunch
Feeding kids a healthy lunch every school day is a feat of science and logistics. Molded into shape by nutrition scientists who wanted to op...
ALS Patients Take on the FDA
ALS is a fatal neurological disease that kills motor neurons. Even though it was first described more than 150 years ago, there is no cure,...
The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry
In 1973 a bombshell study appeared in the premier scientific journal Science . It was called "On Being Sane in Insane Places." Its author, a...
Cancer Virus Hunters: An Interview with Gregory J. Morgan
For more than 100 years, biologists who suggested that some cancers may be caused by viruses were the pariahs of genetics. However, they per...
The Ames Test
In 1973 biochemist Bruce Ames created a simple test that showed if chemicals had the potential to cause cancer. The Ames test made him a her...
Is Ozempic Different?
Ozempic and others in this family of drugs are nothing short of miraculous. Meant to treat Type 2 Diabetes, the drug exploded in popularity...
Traffication: An Interview with Paul Donald
The impact of cars on wildlife extends beyond roadkill, affecting species that never venture near roads. Car noise disrupts bird communicati...
Dyes, Drugs, and Psychosis
In 1856, Henry Perkin's attempt to synthesize quinine led to something very different: a vibrant purple dye. Perkin's mauve revolutionized t...
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