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This week on ThinkResearch we conclude our conversation with Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School. Hear how Dr. Beckwith used his laboratory studies to educate others about wrongful genetic discrimination while combating the misinformation that transcended the late 20th century.

Last time on ThinkResearch, we learned of the social climate that shaped Dr. Jonathan Beckwith's science. This week, hear about the studies Beckwith undertook to find out just what genetic engineering was capable of.

This week, Dr. Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School explains his experience at the intersection of science and social activism during the 1960s and 70s that shaped his career as a chemist and bacterial geneticist.

This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Carmen Priolo of Brigham and Women, walks us down her own path of metabolic pathway imaging in tumor cells. By studying different enzymatic reactions, the goal is to better treat various metabolic features in patients.

When angiosarcoma left Dr. Corrie Painter with a grim prognosis and limited information, she turned to online social communities, and found a wealth of resources and knowledge. Dr. Painter then worked to create her own online, direct-to-patient resource for metastatic cancer patients. This week we re-air Dr. Painter's inspiring story to celebrate the launch of her third initiative, the Metastatic Prostate Cancer Project. Learn more at mpcproject.org.

To ring in the New Year, we are featuring a replay of ThinkResearch’s “Let’s Get Clinical” episode to help you get the most out of your workout resolutions. Dr. I-Min Lee, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains the importance of physical activity to improve overall wellbeing long beyond January 1.

We are winding down 2017 with an exciting encore of our premiere episode featuring Dr. Elliott Antman’s explanation of Coumadin’s complex history. From farm cows and sweet clover hay to a rat poison antidote, learn the interesting chain of events that gave modern day medicine one of its most commonly prescribed blood thinners.

This month, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Brian Healy, PhD gives insight into the future of clinical trials and model building in biostatistics. At the crux of study design innovation and new prediction model building, researchers should take advantage of this unique time in research and technology to do their best work.

Alexander Lin, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joins us to discuss the important research his lab is undertaking: using technology to perform a virtual biopsy of a brain that has been exposed to a traumatic injury.

We are joined by Giorgio Giatsidis, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss the field of plastic surgery. In our talk, Dr. Giatsidis talks about the common misconceptions related to the field and how his lab is working to develop new ways to reconstruct soft tissues.

We are joined by Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD from Massachusetts General Hospital to talk about the important research his lab is doing regarding strokes and secondary brain injuries that occur after the initial trauma.

We are joined by Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss how her career path evolved from studying art history to today, a successful dermatologist who is studying why your immune system fails to see cancer.

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed, there has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of the bill. Ben Sommers, MD, PhD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins us as to talk about his work in health care reform and the national debate regarding the ACA.

We are joined by Tamarra James Todd, PhD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will talk to us about how chemicals can lead to the development of chronic disease as well as the racial and ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures.

Hear from Mark Shrime, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, on the challenges and hidden costs of making surgery available in low-income countries, despite overwhelming demand.

Bill Hanage, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses efforts to predict when and how certain types of bacteria may become resistant to treatment.

Conor Evans, PhD, and Haley Marks, PhD, both from Massachusetts General Hospital, join us to talk about the S.M.A.R.T. bandage project. They describe how a visit to a military hospital in Texas led to the development of a product that would ultimately allow doctors to use a smart phone app to see how a wound or burn is healing.

Cell phones assist in the fight against malaria. In the next podcast, hear Caroline Buckee, D.Phil, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explain how her team is using cell phone data to make predictions about how malaria is transmitted through different areas of a country.

Air quality is the degree to which the ambient air is pollution-free. In countries such as Uganda, cooking and certain lighting sources can make the indoor air quality worse than it is outdoors. Later this month, Peggy Lai, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses her work on improving air quality inside homes in Uganda.

The DNA blue print of the human body is a complex system that is under assault every moment of the day. Zac Nagel, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins us to talk about his efforts to study DNA repair to ultimately prevent, anticipate, and treat diseases like cancer.