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Matt Begemann: The Cancer-Killing CRISPR
Episode 52
What began as a search for plant-friendly CRISPR tools led Matt Begemann, PhD, and colleagues to Cas12a2, or CasCLEAR, an unusual system that can tri…
3 hours ago
Wei-Wu He: Craig Venter’s Legacy and the Future of Human Longevity
Episode 51
Human Longevity executive chairman Wei-Wu He discusses how the integration of genomics, advanced imaging, and artificial intelligence could transform…
2 weeks ago
Palani Kumaresan: Roche Diagnostics Is Ramping Up—Should Illumina Be Worried?
Episode 50
Roche’s AXELIOS sequencer, Alzheimer’s blood test, and push to automate mass spectrometry point to a broader strategy of making advanced diagnostics …
4 weeks ago
Ken Greenberg: Can Ultrasound Shatter the Gene Therapy Delivery Bottleneck?
Episode 49
Gene therapy’s biggest bottleneck remains delivery: getting increasingly sophisticated genetic medicines safely into the right cells. SonoThera is ta…
1 month, 1 week ago
David Thaisrivongs: Goldilocks and the First Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor
Episode 48
Biocatalysis has evolved from a scientific curiosity into a powerful manufacturing platform, culminating in enlicitide, the first oral macrocyclic pe…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Beaubrun and Acharya: No Antibiotic Without a Diagnostic
Episode 47
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) isn't going to be solved by new antibiotics alone—it also requires identifying resistant infections quickly enough to …
2 months, 1 week ago
Amit Etkin: Precision Psychiatry’s Future Isn’t Genomics—It’s Brain Activity
Episode 46
For decades, psychiatry has relied on symptom-based diagnosis and trial-and-error treatment, but precision medicine is set to transform mental health…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Antonov: From Virtual World Builder to Real-World Drug Designer
Episode 45
AI is transforming biomedical research, but meaningful advances in drug discovery require more than just increasingly powerful algorithms—they depend…
3 months ago
Philippe Pouletty: Turning Europe’s Life Science Startups Into World Leaders
Episode 44
Philippe Pouletty, MD, is one of Europe’s most successful life sciences entrepreneurs, having spent more than 30 years building category-leading biot…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Arthur Caplan: The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Health
Episode 43
While growing up during the polio era, Arthur Caplan, PhD, saw doctors hide painful truths from families and children, which sparked his lifelong que…
4 months ago