Episodes

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Broadcast Date Episode Title Episode #
Nov 20, 2020 Read History in a Glacier 731
Nov 13, 2020 Wash Out That Gray Hair 730
Nov 6, 2020 An Artist's Genetic Disease 729
Oct 30, 2020 Gene Editing for Sickle Cell 728
Oct 23, 2020 What Do Llamas and Nurse Sharks Have in Common? 727
Oct 15, 2020 The Origins of the ICU 726
Oct 9, 2020 Patching the Heart 725
Oct 2, 2020 Medical Microbots 724
Sep 25, 2020 New England Vampires 723
Sep 18, 2020 Could Alcoholism Be Controlled with a Switch 722
Sep 11, 2020 Bacteria's Role in Colorectal Cancer 721
Sep 4, 2020 A Viral Cause of Parkinson's 720
Aug 28, 2020 How Do You Hear Your Favorite Song 719
Aug 21, 2020 Magic Mushroom Resurgence 718
Aug 14, 2020 Smokers Take Warning 717
Aug 7, 2020 Yes, It Came From Bats 716
Jul 31, 2020 The Hearing of the Blind 715
Jul 24, 2020 It's 98.6 Right? 714
Jul 17, 2020 Schizophrenia Genes in Africa 713
Jul 10, 2020 David's Surprise 712
Jul 3, 2020 Stress is Making Me Grey 711
Jun 26, 2020 A Small (Micro) Advance to Combat Stroke 709
Jun 19, 2020 Royal Inbreeding and the Hapsburg Jaw 708
Jun 12, 2020 It Is Better to Forget 707
Jun 5, 2020 Cheap, Quick and Accurate Cancer Detection 706
May 29, 2020 More Space Problems 704
May 22, 2020 My Bugs Ate My Drug 705
May 15, 2020 Why Bats 703
May 8, 2020 What Inspired the Iditarod 702
May 1, 2020 Making Antivirals 701
Apr 24, 2020 Pandemics of Modern Times 700
Apr 17, 2020 The Granddaddy of All Pandemics 699
Apr 10, 2020 Hello-Can You Hear Me Now? 698
Apr 3, 2020 Get the HPV Vaccine and Avoid Cancer 697
Mar 27, 2020 Plague Outbreak in China 696
Mar 19, 2020 Predicting Death 695
Mar 13, 2020 A Blood Test for Brain Injury 694
Mar 6, 2020 Good News for Cystic Fibrosis 693
Feb 28, 2020 Vaping is Killing People 692
Feb 21, 2020 Global Warming on Mental Health 691
Feb 14, 2020 Another Reason to Fear Measles 690
Feb 7, 2020 A New Vaccine for TB 689
Jan 31, 2020 The Origins of Human Malaria 688
Jan 24, 2020 Play Chess to Lose Weight 687
Jan 17, 2020 Why Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases 686
Jan 10, 2020 Real Life Zombies 685
Jan 3, 2020 The Ultimate Prize: Nobel Prize 2019 684
Dec 27, 2019 The Gut, The Brain and Child Development 683
Dec 20, 2019 Say It Isn't So for Joe 682
Dec 13, 2019 Could the Brain Come Back from Death 681
Dec 6, 2019 The Guts of Parkinson's 680
Nov 29, 2019 A Prostate Test That's Not Fickle 679
Nov 22, 2019 Climate Change and Valley Fever 678