Tonight’s episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine looks into the All of Us Research Program, a program asking for participants to provide health data. This wealth of information will be used by medical researchers in order to speed up the research process and hopefully improve and develop treatments sooner rather than later. PNM’s Dennis Shaffer […]
Bioethics and Henrietta Lacks
Happy New Year! For the first episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine in 2017, we look into the topic of medical bioethics with a specific reference to the case of Henrietta Lacks. PNM’s Lincoln Tice learned about Henrietta Lacks from a recently published biography by Rebecca Skoot called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks […]
