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Thalidomide: The Chemistry Mistake That Killed Thousands of Babies
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On October 1, 1957, thalidomide was introduced as a new morning sickness cure. Everything seemed great until later the next year, when thousands of infants were born with severe birth defects. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: D.A. Noe, Nicholas Smith, ????? ???????, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Fatima Iqbal ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080764 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021008016719 http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/17997789/untold-story-thalidomide-babies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18031152 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24400847_Chiral_Toxicology_It's_the_Same_ThingOnly_Different https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112512/ ------ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#/media/File:NCP14053.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#/media/File:Thalidomide_enantiomers.svg
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