After surviving leukemia in her childhood and becoming a cancer research scientist, Vicky Forster finds herself working alongside the same doctor who saved her life.
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Luke Rosen signs his daughter up for a research study to find out what's causing her seizures and ends up having to fight to find the answers.
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After years of suffering, Phillip Comella discovers the cause of his “excessive bathroom breaks” while working on his thesis in biomedical science.
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Biochemist Melanie McConnell encounters unexpected resistance when she tests an experimental cancer treatment.
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Neuroscientist Maureen Boyle's relationship with her sister, who struggles with drug addiction, becomes even more complicated when she begins working on drug policy.
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As the only black woman on a two-month voyage, Dawn Wright tries to find her place aboard scientific drill vessel JOIDES Resolution.
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Developmental biologist Pam Feliciano tries to understand her autistic son.
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Criminologist Heith Copes gets close to his subjects when he studies meth users in rural Alabama.
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Seth Baum, an expert in global catastrophic risk, makes waves when he suggests a solution to the threat of nuclear winter.
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To discover why some survivors of trauma experience PTSD and some don't, scientist Rachel Yehuda must convince a community of Holocaust survivors to let her study them.
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To study a dangerous disease, Dan Daneshvar asks families to consider donating their loved one's brains.
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A series of incidents propels Joe Palca to a career in sleep research.
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While being treated after an accident, Rachel Fairbank struggles with not being the researcher.
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Adam Foote confronts the problem of obtaining sea urchins in land-locked Pittsburgh...during a polar vortex.
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Alan Guth is working on a fairly typical research paper, when he accidentally makes a huge discovery about the origin of the universe.
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Adam Rogers gets an exciting opportunity to work in a marine biology lab, and see if he really wants to be a biologist.
Read MoreDiana Reiss: Who is training who?
Early in her career researching dolphin intelligence Diana Reiss began wondering, "Who is training who?"
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There is one rule more important than any other in an fMRI experiment: no metal. But a stuck piercing makes aspiring neuroscientist Anna Wexler make a crucial choice -- end her career, or face possible serious injury?
Read MoreStuart Firestein: A mentor with a nose for science
After a career as a theater manager, Stuart Firestein takes a biology class, which leads him to a completely new life, and a lot of salamander noses.
Read MoreLawrence David: An extreme self-study
Having lost his ambition to be a scientist, Lawrence David embarks on one more research project -- to collect and study his poop. Every day. For a year.
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