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This week’s episode takes a walk on the dark side, with a molecular look at a prominent international poisonings.
Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov died in 1978 after a ricin pellet was shot into his leg from an air gun disguised as an umbrella. Twenty-eight years later, former KGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvenenko suffered horribly and died after having been poisoned with polonium-210 slipped into his tea. And former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia nearly died in 2018 from the effects of a nerve agent attack.
To understand how the molecules used in these assaults do their worst to the human body, I speak with Dr. Neil Bradbury, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science–where he teaches and conducts research on genetic diseases, especially cystic fibrosis. He is the author of […]
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