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Deborah Cohen: The Wellness-Industrial Complex
Deb Cohen is an award winning investigative journalist and correspondent who trained as a physician and has worked with the BBC and BMJ. She just pub…
10 hours ago
Sarah Urbut: Predicting Your Health Arc
Sarah Urbut is a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Research Institute. She and her colleagues published a l…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Patrick Hsu: How Is AI Catalyzing Life Science?
“The future of biology is programmable.”
To give you a sense of how important this topic is, Patrick Hsu is the first guest we’ve had back to Ground T…
1 month ago
Aaron Newman: A Breakthrough Blood Test for Cancer
The tumor microenvironment (TME), composed of immune cells, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells, has emerged as critical to pathogenesis, prognosis a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Elisa Port: Discuss THE BREAST ADVICE Book
“I may be the expert in cancer, but you are the expert in you.”—Elisa Port, MD
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1 month, 4 weeks ago
Helen Pearson: What Constitutes Real Medical Evidence?
Helen Pearson, PhD, is an award-winning biomedical journalist at Nature, named European Science Journalist of the Year in 2025. She teaches science w…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Assessment of the Hantavirus with Prof Donald Milton
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3 months, 1 week ago
Joanna Stern: An AI Immersion for 365 Days
Joanna Stern was the Wall Street Journal technology journalist for 12 years. She’s an Emmy award winner for her documentary E-Ternal, and recently st…
3 months, 1 week ago
Roxanne Khamsi: We Are All Genetic Mosaics
“You are a slightly different genetic version of yourself today from yesterday, and will be different yet again tomorrow.”—Roxanne Khamsi
“Each neuron…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Sebastian Mallaby: The Infinity Machine
This is one of my favorite books over recent years. Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Cocker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council …
4 months ago