The Normals (opens in new tab)

How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal humans on a grand scale. It had pretty much everything in place: It had the building, it had recruited all of these amazing researchers—it was the healthy human bodies NIH didn't have. Where it found those volunteers and what happened next is the story of The Normals. Starting on 7 April, the Science Podcast will be re...