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10:00 Regenerative Medicine

Guest host: Laura Knoy

An update on the recent research and success in the effort to build human organs and tissue

Guests

Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Anthony Atala, director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Dr. William Wagner, deputy director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and associate professor of surgery, University of Pittsburgh

11:00Edward P. Jones: "All Aunt Hagar's Children" (Amistad)

Guest host: Laura Knoy

The prize-winning author talks about his latest collection of short stories, set mostly in and around the Washington, DC of the past 150 years.

Guests

Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Known World" and the PEN/Hemingway Award winning collection of short stories, "Lost in the City."

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