Health & Medicine
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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Drawing of hot air balloon

Magic Mirrors, Flying Machines, and Ancient Technology

Event
Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of the brain

Your Brain on Sleep Deprivation

Event
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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Jesse Gelsinger, 18, in an undated family photo

The Why: The Philadelphia Tragedy that Changed Gene Therapy
Media Coverage
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
Media Coverage
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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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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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

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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Elena Kunadt

People

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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A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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

Making Senses

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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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Restoring the Mary Rose

Chemical Hope

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Smog in Tiananmen Square

Is the Smog Out?

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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
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
Learn

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
Learn

Historical Biographies
Learn
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
Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
Historical Profile
Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Paula Hammond
Historical Profile
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Historical Profile
Nancy Chang.

Nancy Chang
Historical Profile
Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton
Historical Profile
Britt Dahlberg

Britt Dahlberg

People
Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Ramya Rajagopalan

People

Carin Berkowitz

People
David Caruso

David J. Caruso

People

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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Ovaltine ad

Packed Full of Questions

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Wounded Soldier

Horror Show

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Medicalizing Menopause

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An edition of Microbe Hunters from the 1940s shows actor Edward G. Robinson as Paul Ehrlich. Robinson played Ehrlich in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, a 1940 film based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif’s bestselling book.

Bug Hunters

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Newborns

Testing Times

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Not-so-safe chemistry lab practices, ca. 1910

Not-So-Great Moments in Chemical Safety

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“More Human Than Human”

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