The Welcome to the not old better show and your host Paul Vogel saying.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates

partnership program, our guest today, Dr Eric Spana, is a professor of biology at

Duke University. I'm a professor that teaches genetics and developmental biology and molecular biology. So when I see science fiction and fantasy things, it's through those through that lens. I kind of like to look at the science fiction and fancy because it's fun viewing, but then the scientist

in me kind of has a problem with it.

I like to take the more creative approach

and to come up with how to make it actually true.

That of course is our guest today, Dr. Eric Spana, who will be appearing at the Smithsonian

Associates Program Friday, June 16, 2017 in Washington, D.C. at the Ripley Center.

Dr. Spana will be presenting on the subject,

Captain America's Super Soldier Serum.

1940s Fantasy meets Modern Biotechnology. Zero. are science fiction. Plus, some of Marvel's characters are among my favorite, whether it's

puny and frail Steve Rogers into Captain America or Black Widow or Hawkeye or Iron Man or

Hulk.

According to the stories, a combination of a chemical compound and VITARAs create our favorite

hero.

And Dr. Spana tells us how modern science might provide an alternative

formula to explain the transformation. Importantly, I'd like to thank Michael O'Buro and his epic Hero music which we're using today in the show.

But please join me in welcoming Dr. Eric Spana to the not-old- Show Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Series.

For this talk, I'll be talking about Captain America and how to make a super soldier serum and how to generate Steve Rogers big muscles out of the puny guy and how to have it happen with one injection and have it stay his whole life and give him other abilities.

There's a fair amount of explaining I have to do to my peers

to say, no, no, seriously, I'm not wasting people's time with Captain America. It's okay.

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