Health & Medicine
Pepper drawing from Hortus eystettensis

Heat Therapy

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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Museum display of Science and Disability exhibit

WHYY: New Philly Exhibit Celebrates Lives, Contributions of Scientists with Disabilities
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Science on Tap audience members

Building Bio(3)Science: Synthesizing Biology, Biography, and Biosphere for Human Health and Well-Being

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Unidentified Beckman Instruments employees

History Lab: Disability and the Myth of the Independent Scientist

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Laboratory staff working with radioactive material

History Lab: Moving beyond Scientific Genius

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Oil-immersion microscope

History Lab: Through the Lens of Disability

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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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Science on Tap audience members

Can Archaeology Save the Planet? Using the Past to Predict the Future

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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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Unbridled Love

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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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3-D Bioprinting: Automating Biology

Event

Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Francisco Bay Area

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: Boston

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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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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WHYY: Check the Label
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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

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
Research

A Study In Scarlet

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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Second Chances

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

Studies in Materials Innovation
Research

History Lab: Imagination and Data­­

Event

History Lab: Communities and Data

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History Lab: Bodies and Data

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Sweet and Savory: How We Preserve Our Food

Event

Saturday Speaker: Epidemics, Immigration, and Quarantine in 19th-Century Philadelphia

Event

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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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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The Age of Scurvy

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Fellow in Focus: Fresh Air, Foul Odors, and the Growth of American Cities

Event

Elena Kunadt

People

First Friday: The Science of Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

Event

A Tear Gas Tale

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AIDS

Going Viral

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies

Event

A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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History Lab: Communities and the Future

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History Lab: Bodies and the Future

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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First Friday: Science History Tournament

Event
Old soda spray bottles in various colors

Fizzy Water

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Amputation

Auld Medicine

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Women in science

First Friday: Wikipedia and Women in Science

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Restoring the Mary Rose

Chemical Hope

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Fellow in Focus: “Trust Me!” The Problem of Insincerity in Early Modern Medicine

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Smog in Tiananmen Square

Is the Smog Out?

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Brown Bag Lecture: Pharmaceutical Crossings: Sleeping Sickness Research between Europe, Colonial Africa, and the United States, 1890–1950

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Research
Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Reginald Brill's A Surgical Operation (1934-1935)

Killing Cancer

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Illustration of a Pasteur-Chamberland filter

The Filter of Life

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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Illustration of children taking medicine

Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine

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Sarah Ehlers

Sarah Ehlers

People
Dr. Angela Creager speaks at the Institute during the 2014 Synthesis lecture.

Brown Bag Lecture: Making Public Health Commodities and Global Health Science in Africa: The Early History of Pyrethroid-Treated Nets

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

People
Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a jar containing the spinal cord of a rabbit infected with rabies, which he used to develop a vaccine against the disease.

Biting Back

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Marieke Hendriksen

Marieke Hendriksen

People

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research
Tho-Radia ad

The Secrets of Life

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Deanna Day

People
Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Historical Biographies
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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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Maxine Singer, ca. 1963.

Maxine Singer
Historical Profile
Donald Tomalia.

Donald A. Tomalia
Historical Profile