The Moth Radio Hour: Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart
The Moth Radio Hour: Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
A special live edition of The Moth’s collaboration with The World Science Festival. An astrophysicist discovers wild parallels in her research and romantic life; a surgeon details his involvement in one of the world’s first-ever hand transplants; and a geneticist is called to testify in a murder case and lays the groundwork for DNA fingerprinting as forensic evidence. Hosted by Jay Allison. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Janna Levin, Kodi Azari, Eric S. Lander Sponsored by: