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Podcast: Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck
Episode: Scientific Breakthrough by Iowa Dr. Saves Lives
Description: Some stories stay with you because of what happened. Others stay because of how they’re told. And every once in a while, a story does both.Today’s conversation lives in that rare space. Please watch and listen.We’re joined by Des Moines Register reporter Courtney Crowder and Dr. Michael Welsh, the University of Iowa physician-scientist whose decades of research helped unlock one of the most significant breakthroughs in the treatment of cystic fibrosis—a disease that, not long ago, was a death sentence for many children.Through persistence, curiosit...