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Podcast: Combatting malnutrition with gut microbes, fighting art forgers with science, and killing cancer with gold

Feb 18, 201624 min
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Episode description

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on how our abilities shape our minds, killing cancer cells with gold nanoparticles, and catching art forgery with cat hair.
 
Laura Blanton joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how nourishing our gut microbes may prevent malnutrition. Read the related research in Science.
 
[Image: D. S. Wagner et al., Biomaterials, 31 (2010)]
 
Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm

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