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    Left Handers Rule

    • Episode 1003 • Release 231

    Sometimes I feel like an alien. Why? I am very left-handed. I can't do anything with my right hand. While this can give me the upper hand (ha!) in tennis, the reality is most of the world is backwards to me. Same for one of my children who had to learn the downsides of being a south paw.

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    Long Term Consequences for a Starved Child

    • Episode 1002 • Release 230

    Seeing disturbing images about the famine in Gaza had me thinking about the long-term consequences of the starving children there, should they survive. At least half a million Gazans face starvation with little humanitarian aid being allowed in. After just a few days without food, a child's body begins to tap into stores of glucose in the liver, and then fat stores to keep the brain and other organs going.

  • tomatoes on the vine

    You Say Tomato and I Say Potato

    • Episode 1001 • Release 230

    You know the old song lyric, “you say tomayto and I say tomahto?” Well, a new study has Dave and me saying, “you say tomato and I say potato.” That's because the tomato plant may be the ancestor to potato plants. At some point, the tomato genome joined with an ancestral form of a tuberless potato plant to form today's potato in South America's Andes mountains about 9 million years ago.

  • Drs. David Niesel and Norbert Herzog in the recording booth

    20 Years Ago Today - The Anniversary Episode

    • Episode 1000 • Release 230

    And nearly 20 years ago, we started Medical Discovery News. This show is our thousandth episode!

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    Was This the First Pandemic

    • Episode 999 • Release 230

    Pandemics linger even while some people want to believe it's over. COVID-19 is a good example. So, let's look back at three huge pandemics caused by one bacterium, Yersinia pestis, that continues to persist today.

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