Episode 10: Powerful placebo

from Harvard Medical Labcast · host Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations

Find out why HMS Associate Professor of Medicine Ted Kaptchuk is trying to understand the magnitude, duration and boundaries of placebo effects. Plus, in the process of studying the genetic roots of a horrific disease, researchers discover a new way to create adult stem cells.

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