Recent Episodes
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Wow, It Is Noisy In Here
Less than a month after getting a new gene therapy treatment, a young girl named Li “Yiyi” Xincheng heard sounds without her cochlear implant for the first time. Born deaf, Yiyi is one of five children in a study that used two viruses to replace parts of a defective gene that caused her deafness. ... More » }
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Keeping organs for transplantation on the shelf
In the classic cult movie, Young Frankenstein, Igor had to pick out a brain to finish assembling the monster. But brains were in short supply which drove Igor to pick a brain labeled defective “off the lab shelf”. So, what if you could send a tech to a supply room and pick out an organ? We don't have an organ bank yet, but recent research on freezing, storing, and thawing organs may make this a reality. ... More » }
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Civil War Iodine
The single bloodiest day in US history may have happened on the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland. On September 17, 1862, there were 23,000 casualties in just 12 hours to stop the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion of the North. ... More » }
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Bacteria as a GPS Beacon for Tumor cell Therapy
There's a saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That very well describes a cancer-fighting therapy scientists are exploring. We've known that bacteria can penetrate and colonize human tumors which makes sense that scientists are engineering bacteria to carry a cancer-fighting tool inside tumors. ... More » }