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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

Distillations Podcast
18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

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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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Susan Weiss headshot

Interview with Susan Weiss

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child on table surrounded by a group of men and women

The Story of Serum Therapy

Distillations Article
Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

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Old Brew, New Brew

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Sweating Blood

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A Study In Scarlet

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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

Killing Cancer

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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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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 headshot

Nancy Chang

Historical Profile
Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton

Historical Profile
Paul Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich

Historical Profile
George Rosenkranz

George Rosenkranz

Historical Profile
Felix Hoffmann.

Felix Hoffmann

Historical Profile
Paul Berg.

Paul Berg

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Carl Djerassi.

Carl Djerassi

Historical Profile
Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley

Historical Profile
Albert Szent-Györgyi.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Historical Profile
E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler

Historical Profile
Portrait of Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

Historical Profile
Percy Julian.

Percy Lavon Julian

Historical Profile
Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker

Historical Profile
Gerhard Domagk.

Gerhard Domagk

Historical Profile
Robert S. Langer.

Robert S. Langer

Historical Profile
Alexander Fleming, holding a petri dish.

Alexander Fleming

Historical Profile
Blow Pipe Kit

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Young and Positive

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Sickening Sweet

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Ovaltine ad

Packed Full of Questions

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Liber de arte distillandi de compositis

Tryals and Tribulations

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Edward Robinson Squibb

Hall Monitor

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A 19th-century watercolor redrawn from Sir Charles Bell’s The Anatomy of the Brain. Modern psychiatry has adopted the chemical imbalance theory of depression. (Wellcome Library, London)

Down, but Not Out

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Advertisement for Thorazine from 1972

Mind and Matter

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Library reading room at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City.

Life in Translation

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Apothecary-style bottles

Vitamins Come to Dinner

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Biotech

Start It Up

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A Better Pill

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A sample of Salvarsan from 1936

Early Solution

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Army surgeons

Frontline Pharmacies

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An Everyday Poison

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A watercolor of five surgeons participating in an amputation without anesthetic.

Painless Dreams

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Back cover image of Louis Pasteur, Benefactor de la Humanidad.

Graphic Knowledge

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Eli Lilly Test Kit No. 7

Taking Control

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Gerhard Domagk

Soldier Sulfa

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Medicalizing Menopause

Distillations Article
Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Wonder Drugs

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