Episode 1: Serum Therapy 1901
Sep 15, 2020•21 min•Ep. 1
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Episode description
Welcome! This first episode covers the very first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Emil von Behring in 1901. The Nobel Assembly chose to give Behring the first award "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria”. Topics include how Behring used serum therapy to treat diphtheria, how serum therapy is currently being used in the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, and humanized cows.
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