MWV 111 (audio only) TWiM live at Microbe: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots

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MWV 110 - How to Create Agar Art Using Living Microbes (Audio Only)

Step inside the creative process with Agar Art 2015 winners Maria Peñil Cobo, Mixed Media Artist, and Mehmet Berkmen, PhD, Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs. During their multi-year collaboration, Maria and Memo have created astonishing works of art using living microbes. Fi ...  Show more

MWV 109 - The Never-ending Vaccine Race (Audio Only)

Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discusses her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell line and, through it, important viral vaccines, including the vaccine for rubella (Germ ...  Show more

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