Scientific American senior editor Josh Fischman joins us to talk about rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases and the progress being made to fight them.
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How Covid-19 Attacks Our Immune System
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it.
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Let Them Eat Dirt!
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it. His new book is called “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System.”
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Is The First Alzheimer’s Survivor Living Among Us?
University of Virginia neuroscientist Jonathan Kipnis joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how researchers are learning that the immune system and the nervous system actually work more closely together than previously thought.
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