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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

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Illustrations of typhosus and e. coli

Disease in the Water: Typhoid Fever

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18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: Boston/Cambridge

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Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Photo of Stephane Bancel

Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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Cartoon of men in powdered wigs fighting

Vicious Doctors and Cruel Diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica

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Cartoon of group of men dissecting bodies in an attic

The Anatomy Riots

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Doctors perform ancient neurosurgery

When a Hole in the Head Is a Good Thing

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color portrait of man and woman smiling

Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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Drawing of an anopheles mosquito

When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity

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Advertisement of a child eating

Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Close up photo of contraceptive pill

Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

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A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins
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Physician inoculates boy with smallpox vaccine aboard ship

Orphan Vaccines

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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Portrait of James Barry

How History Keeps Ignoring James Barry

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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
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Illustration of a young woman with skin lesions

Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

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A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Catalogue image of microscopes

Science and Disability: Part 1

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Engraving showing tableau of injected vessel and infant skeletons by Frederick Ruysch,

Collecting Monstrosity

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The Instrumental Chemist
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Photo of Magda Marquet posing

Interview with Magda Marquet

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Robert Langer working on a bed at home while wearing a mask

Interview with Robert Langer

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Mark Stevenson of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

Interview with John Maraganore

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

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Photograph of an operation in a surgical amphitheater

The Nurse Who Introduced Gloves to the Operating Room

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child on table surrounded by a group of men and women

The Story of Serum Therapy

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Photo from 1918 showing Philadelphia streetcar with sign reading "Spit spreads death"

Spit Spreads Death

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Color image of cancer cell

Who Needs a Mammogram?

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Medicinal Leeches and Where to Find Them

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A dancing couple in unusual clothes

Old Drug Ketamine Offers New Hope for Chronic Pain Sufferers

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Color anatomical drawing of a mosquito

Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Cartoon of grave robbers

The Anatomy Riot of 1788

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Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Francisco Bay Area

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Color woodcut of two women on desolate shore

Searching for Schizophrenia

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Woodcut of well-dressed crowd and cow strapped to table

Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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Two brain scans: one seemingly healthy one and one afflicted by alzheimer's

The Alzheimer’s Copernicus Problem

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Illustration of rat climbing down a ship's mooring rope with a city in the distance

San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Sangeeta Bhatia

Interview: Sangeeta Bhatia

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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Illustration of pepper plant

Heat Therapy

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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Closeup of a penicillin fermentation jug

Distilled #8: Penicillin Jug

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Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Still from Where Are My Children: At the end of the film the Waltons are visited by the spectral images of their offspring, first as children and then as young adults.

Where Are My Children? Public Health in the Movies

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19th century breast reliever

Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Soldiers at Camp Dix during the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918

Exhuming the Flu

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Snakes and Letters

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Old Brew, New Brew

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Sweating Blood

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Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Curator holding bottle of Lift vitamins.

Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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A Study In Scarlet

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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Second Chances

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Painting of a operation in a historical surgery theater

From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons

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Cat Craze

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
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Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Fizzy Water

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The Art of Memory

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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The Birds, the Bees, and the Froggies

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