Captain America

This week we enter the wonderful world of superheroes with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger.

We're talking world war two, the advent of comic book heroes, vita rays and super serums! Abi get's down with gene therapy while Freda goes on a journey with Hugo and his german accent.

'Gibt es das pretzel?!'

References:

• Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? - BBC Future
• Operation Paperclip - Book review: CIA Library
• More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers - The Atlantic
• Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug' - Live Science
• The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments - Live Science
• Muscles in a Vial: Can a Single Shot Turn You Into Captain America - Live Science

• Science behind Captain America - Youtube : Stanford University
• Gene Therapy and making a real Superhero Serum - Youtube : Because Science in partnership with Novartis
• Superhero physiology: the case for Captain America - Brown et al, Advances in Physiology Education Vol. 41, No. 1, 2017

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