My name is Dr. Tim Gabor, I'm a Biotechnology Professor. I chat with scientists of all types in hopes of motivating science students. Have an interesting sto…
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Guest: Gain-of-Function Research
Researchers explore the controversial 'gain-of-function' technique: intentionally making viruses or bacteria more dangerous to understand and combat them. Animal models offer insights, but raise questions about their real-world relevance to human conditions.
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Philosopher and historian of science Dr. Justin Garson joins me to unpack The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia, the mid-century hunt for a pill that could temporarily induce schizophrenia so scientists could reverse-engineer a cure.
Topics: Welcome: Justin Garson & The Madness Pill · Father’s 1973 diagnosis & talk therapy without drugs · Second chapter: voices, hospitalization & antipsychotics · Side effects, stigma & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest · Why psychiatry flipped to pills — enter Solomon Snyder · Recapitulating madness: induce schizophrenia to study it
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