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Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome ? Episode Two
In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome, and went on to have a successful career as a pediatr…
11 months ago
Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome? Episode One
In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause of Down sy…
11 months, 1 week ago
Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician from…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Breaking Through
Dr. Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA, which she always believed had the potential to change th…
1 year ago
Best Of: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
At this festive time of year, when many people are bringing trees into their homes to decorate for the holidays, we are going back to our story of a …
1 year ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River
Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document th…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Carolyn Beatrice Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical p…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Attention is Discovery
Anna Von Mertens' thoughtful new exploration of Henrietta Swan Leavitt's life describes and illuminates Leavitt's decades-long study of stars, includ…
1 year, 2 months ago
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
Finding Dora Richardson - The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen
In the early 1960s, chemist Dr. Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to treat breast cancer: t…
1 year, 2 months ago