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Medical advancements don’t just spring up—they happen by building on decades of previous discoveries. Today, one of these advancements might be on the verge of another breakthrough. But what had to happen first for it to exist? In this episode, co-hosts Dr. Raven Baxter and Dr. Ronald Gamble explore how a vaccine candidate for a deadly, once-mysterious bacterial disease came to be. The story takes them from one doctor’s groundbreaking connection in the 70s, all the way to a real lab where vaccines are being developed today. Featured Guests : – Carol Baker, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist – Isis Kanevsky, Senior Director, Vaccines, Pfizer – Ksenia Krylova, Senior Director, Vaccines, Pfizer Dive into the episode here : 02:54 - Getting into the problem 05:11 - The basics of immunity and vaccine science 09:32 - What is a conjugate vaccine? 14:44 - Group B Strep: A case study 22:23 - Talking to a GBS pioneer 31:40 - A trip to the lab 43:08 - What's next, and closing thoughts Season 5 of Science Will Win is created by Pfizer and hosted by Dr. Raven Baxter and Dr. Ronald Gamble. It’s produced by Acast Creative Studios. Check out our social media platforms to take a deeper look into the labs and stories we discuss during the episodes: Instagram (@pfizerinc), TikTok (@pfizer) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.…

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Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.

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‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London 31:38

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Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today By Yvonne Singh. Read by Karl Queensborough. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders 40:42

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: the arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them By Lauren Hilgers. Read by Emily Woo Zeller. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read 19:57

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To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Charlotte Higgins and Hettie O’Brien. The Guardian long read magazine is available to order at theguardian.com/longreadmag In this issue, you’ll find pieces on how MrBeast became the world’s biggest YouTube star, how Emmanuel Macron deals with Donald Trump, and shocking revelations at the British Museum. Plus: what’s behind our rampant steroid use?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat 27:16

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Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bell By Peter Betts. Read by Andrew McGregor. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet 32:53

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A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Ghatak. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater 27:35

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people By Carey Baraka. Read by Reice Weathers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump 30:32

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Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friend By Lauren Hilgers. Read by G Cheng. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job 30:46

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From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order By Tom Lamont. Read by Elis James. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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From the archive: The queen of crime-solving 41:55

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: forensic scientist Angela Gallop has helped to crack many of the UK’s most notorious murder cases. But today she fears the whole field – and justice itself – is at risk By Imogen West-Knights. Read by Lucy Scott. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 25:45

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If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out? By William Davies. Read by Dan Starkey. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang 36:37

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In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence By Jason Burke. Read by Noof Ousellam. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face 48:46

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Thanks to a savvy California lawyer, Albert Einstein has earned far more posthumously than he ever did in his lifetime. But is that what the great scientist would have wanted? By Simon Parkin. Read by Ruth Lass. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel 28:35

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In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fracture By Mark Mazower. Read by Kerry Shale. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod…

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‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China 54:50

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In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race By Chang Che. Read by Vincent Lai. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me 33:25

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