Thursday August 31, 2006
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Guest host: Laura Knoy
An update on the recent research and success in the effort to build human organs and tissue
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
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.
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."