CRISPR's Origin Story: From Odd Bacterial DNA Repeats to Gene Editing Cures
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 2025 doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia used gene editing to treat a...
3 Okt 25min
Elizabeth Loftus and False Memories: Lost in the Mall to the Courtroom
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ask a witness how fast two cars were going when they smashed rather than hit, and their estimate...
3 Okt 19min
Dopamine Is Not the Pleasure Chemical: Motivation, Parkinson's, Addiction
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Some patients who take dopamine drugs to steady their movements suddenly develop compulsive gamb...
3 Okt 25min
The Mozart Effect Myth: From 36 College Students to Georgia's Baby CDs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1990s expectant mothers pressed headphones playing Mozart to their bellies, convince...
3 Okt 20min
David Rosenhan's 'On Being Sane in Insane Places' and the Fraud Behind It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1970s Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan told a psychiatric hospital he heard a v...
3 Okt 23min
The Appendix Is Not Useless: Darwin's Error and the Gut Bacteria Safe House
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Darwin called the human appendix a shrunken, useless leftover, and medicine largely agre...
3 Okt 22min
Daniel Hale Williams: The 1893 Chest Surgery and the Founding of Provident
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1893 James Cornish arrived at Chicago's Provident Hospital with a knife wound over his h...
3 Okt 21min
Christiaan Barnard's 1967 Heart Transplant and His Piggyback Heart Gamble
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Christiaan Barnard told dying grocer Louis Washkansky he had an 80 percent chance of surviving a...
3 Okt 23min
