Lina Zeldovich
Award-winning science journalist and author of "The Living Medicine" (2024) and "The Other Dark Matter" (2021); contributor to the New York Times, Scientific American, and Smithsonian.
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Aug 26, 2025
Lina ZeldovichGUEST
And once you have enough there, um, you inoculate the brew with phages, and phages set to work, and they attack this, you know, bacteria.
Lina ZeldovichGUEST
And once you have almost no bacteria there, you know you have a lot of phages, and that's when the purification step comes in.
Lina ZeldovichGUEST
And again, if you're just putting phages on your skin or drinking them, you can actually skip that step.
37 MINS LATER
Devin KatayamaNARRATOR
Eli Metchnikoff had been visited by death.
Lina ZeldovichGUEST
They traveled to places with better climate, milder winters, sunnier places and nothing helped and she eventually died.
21 MINS LATER
Eli MetchnikoffSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let all those who expected me to live 100 years or longer forgive me my premature death.