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Welcome to the science podcast for September 27, 2019. I'm Sarah Krusky. On this week's show, senior news correspondent Jeffrey Mervis talks with me about big

roadblocks for Facebook's plan to release anonymous user data to social scientists that want to study

the site's role in the 2016 U.S. election. And I talk with Jennifer Groon about counting chromosomes in human

egg cells. It turns out errors in division that cause too many or too few chromosomes to remain in the egg cell

may shape human fertility over our reproductive lives.

Finally, in this month's book segment, Kiki Sanford talks with Daniel Navon about his book,

Mobilizing Mutations, Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy.

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