🦠 The Villain That Wasn't: How Science Learned to Read the Body's Distress Signals

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read: 📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX There’s a particular kind of humility that only arrives after catastrophic failure. — the real, bone-deep kind that rewrites what you think you know about knowing itself. The story of amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's disease is that kind of story. And if you sit with it long enough, it becomes something else entirely: a story about listening. Pharmaceutical companies spent billions developing molecular compounds that could c...