Are You Listening :The Scientist [2006-06-01]

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	BY ISHANI GANGULI Seventy-three-year-old Franklin Leach, professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at Oklahoma State University, was nearing the last leg of his daily neighborhood walk when he first heard that private medical insurers could discriminate against women with the BRCA1 gene. He was listening to a podcast from the New England Journal of Medicine. ARTICLE EXTRAS Related Articles: 8 Reasons to Tune InA science podcaster bares allPodcasts go to schoolThe Scientist's Guide to Science Podcasts

Are You Listening While on vacation with non-scientist friends in Mexico, Diana Tomchick, a biochemist at the University of Texas, Southwestern, found that an episode of Kirsten Sanford's "This Week in Science" podcast with a heated debate on global warming sparked one of their own.


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Are You Listening

While on vacation with non-scientist friends in Mexico, Diana Tomchick, a biochemist at the University of Texas, Southwestern, found that an episode of Kirsten Sanford's "This Week in Science" podcast with a heated debate on global warming sparked one of their own.