Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Sattely: Plants are the ultimate chemists
They make a remarkable array of chemicals to survive the world around them. One engineer is using that knowledge to help people live better. When thi…
6 years, 4 months ago
Ross Shachter: Can AI improve mammography?
In breast cancer pathology, a 2 percent chance of malignancy is the accepted threshold at which a radiologist refers the patient for further study. I…
6 years, 5 months ago
Ash Alizadeh: A New Age in Oncology
In cancer detection, could a blood test replace a biopsy? Once, when a cancer was suspected, the next move often involved a biopsy – literally cuttin…
6 years, 5 months ago
Margot Gerritsen: How to get more women into data science
Women face many roadblocks to careers in data science and other STEM disciplines. One Stanford professor is out to change perceptions and realities f…
6 years, 5 months ago
Mildred Cho: Ethics in the age of easy gene editing
How do new technologies and techniques for altering DNA get used? And who gets to use them? In recent years, the development of inexpensive genetic …
6 years, 6 months ago
Lynn Hildemann: What pollutants are lurking in our indoor spaces?
An expert on air quality talks about the hidden dangers inside our homes and offers some helpful tips on what you can do to reduce your exposure. We …
6 years, 6 months ago
Steven Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing
A mechanical engineer explains how more and better data is helping to create new prosthetics unlike any before. For years prosthetic limbs were merel…
6 years, 6 months ago
Ami Bhatt: Lessons from the microbial world living within us
Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything, the future of the microbiome. Now, the microbiome has gotten a lot of attention in the last few year…
6 years, 6 months ago
Mehran Sahami: The evolution of computer science education
Once the core American curriculum meant reading, writing and arithmetic, but Stanford professor Mehran Sahami says we might soon have to add a fourth…
6 years, 7 months ago
John Markoff: The past, present and future of Silicon Valley
Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything the future of Silicon Valley. Periodically, in human history every now and then there is an unusual m…
6 years, 7 months ago