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In 2022, Susan Wojcicki was on top of the world—CEO of YouTube, parent to five kids, and running a few miles a day—when she received a shocking diagn…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Mouse Lady
In the 1910s, a relatively unknown cancer researcher named Maud Slye announced the first results of a study with the loftiest ambitions: to identify …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Rosalind - The Opera
Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath join host Rosie Millard in front of a London audience to explore why the story of chemist and x-…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two
Although initial clinical trials of tamoxifen as a treatment of breast cancer were positive, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) did not believe this …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Encontrando a Dora Richardson – La desarrolladora olvidada del tamoxifeno, una terapia vital contra el cáncer de mama
Aunque los ensayos clínicos iniciales del tamoxifeno como tratamiento del cáncer de mama fueron positivos, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) no creí…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson, The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode One
In the early 1960s, Dr. Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to treat breast cancer: tamoxifen…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Encontrando a Dora Richardson – Episodio 1
A principios de la década de los sesenta, la Dra. Dora Richardson sintetizó un compuesto químico que se convirtió en uno de los medicamentos más impo…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Opening Doors to Computer Science
In high school, Carla Brodley was almost shut out of computer science when boys took over all the computers. But she rediscovered her love for the fi…
6 months, 1 week ago
Frances Glessner Lee: The Mother of Forensic Science
Frances Glessner Lee discovered her true calling later in life. An heiress without formal schooling, she was in her fifties when she transformed her …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mothers of Gynecology
In this episode, Katie Hafner joins Alexis Pedrick and Mariel Carr to bring you The Mothers of Gynecology, part of Innate: How Science Invented the M…
7 months, 1 week ago