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SHOWS CURRENTLY AIRING ...


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September 15, 2015

JERRY KAPLAN

Entrepreneur and Author, Humans Need Not Apply A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Moira speaks with JERRY KAPLAN, the co-founder of GO corporation and OnSale, about the emergence of Age of Artificial Intelligence and what it means to both the entrepreneur and to everyday people ...

 




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JAMES SABRY

Global Vice President & Head of Partnering, Genentech

... while Genentech famous for its biologic drugs, partnering with others has been a part of its DNA from the beginning ...




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September 8, 2015

JOHN MARKOFF

New York Times Journalist
Author, Machines of Loving Grace The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

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Moira speaks with New York Times journalist John Markoff about the intersection of humans and technology - it's definitely heating up ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. STAN ERCK

President & CEO, NovaVax

... a new vaccine for RSV in the elderly, as well as in pregnant mothers ...




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September 1, 2015

JOHN GREY

Journalist and Author, The New Spymasters Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
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Moira speaks with journalist STEPHEN GREY talks about spymasters - from the KGB to Edward Snowden, Grey lays out a timeline for global spying ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. KATRINE BOSLEY

CEO, Editas Medicine

... CRISPR fixing genetic mutations ...



JOHN CARROLL
Editor-in-Chief, Fierce Biotech

... reporting the daily news of the biotech industry ...




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August 25, 2015

SUSAN CASEY

Journalist and Winner, National Magazine Award
Author, Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

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Moira speaks with journalist SUSAN CASEY about Dolphins - for one thing, their brains are not all like a humans ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JOHN McDONOUGH

CEO, T2 Biosystems

... detecting levels of candida more quickly ...



STEVE MENTO
CEO, Conatus Pharmaceuticals

... emergent treatment for cirrhosis of the liver ...




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August 18, 2015

JOHN PATRICK

Former Vice President of Internet Technology, IBM
Author, Health Attitude - Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare

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Moira speaks with JOHN PATRICK about how our health is intertwined with our information systems - ignore information technology means ignoring the future of your health ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR SAM WHITEHOUSE

COO, QuantuMDx

... a simple device which can perform a genetic diagnosis in 15 minutes, plus determine potential for drug resistance ...




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August 11, 2015

ANIL ANANTHASWAMY

PBS Nova columnist, The Nature of Reality
Author, The Man Who Wasnt There Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self

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Moira speaks with journalist SUSAN CASEY about Dolphins - for one thing, their brains are not all like a humans ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. STEVE HURST

President & CEO, Savant HWP Health, Wellness and Prevention

... an emergent treatment for cocaine addiction, and the unexpected link between addiction to dopamine in Parkinsons patients ...




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August 4, 2015

BERNIE ROTH

Stanford University Engineering Professor,
Academic Director, The D-School
Author, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of your Life

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Moira speaks with Stanford professor BERNIE ROTH about what works now, and what can work a whole lot better - in your life. A habit of achieving serves you well for a lifetime ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JAMES CALLAWAY

CEO, ArmaGen

... using the insulin pathway for drug delivery Hunters, Hulers & San Filipo A ...

DR. LAURENT LEVY
Founder, Nanobiotix

... injecting nanoparticles to improve radiation therapy ...




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July 28, 2015

GUY KAWASAKI (second appearance this year)

Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Evangelist for Canva
Author, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

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Moira speaks with GUY KAWASAKI for a second time this year! Hes back with the ten year-update on one of his classics - The Art of the Start 2.0 ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


RACHEL KING

CEO, Glycomimetics

... first, Sickle Cell Disease, now, AML - Acute Myeloid Leukemia ...




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July 21, 2015

DR CHARLOTTE JACOBS

Professor Emerita
Stanford University School of Medicine
Author, Jonas Salk: A Life

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Moira speaks with DR CHARLOTTE JACOBS, re-visiting 1950s America under the threat of Polio what did science know? And what did it get wrong? ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


JAY LICHTER

Co-Founder, Otonomy

... Menieres disease ...




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July 14, 2015



Tech Nation broadcasts from the International Biotechnology Conference, BIO 2015 in Philadelphia, speaking with:




JIM GREENWOOD


President and CEO,
BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization

 




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PAUL HASTINGS


Chairman and President, OncoMed Pharmaceuticals




MIKE MAY


Editorial Director,
Scientific American WorldView 2015









YALI FRIEDMAN


Head, Data Analytics,
Scientific American WorldView 2015









GARETH WILLIAMS


Partner and Patent Attorney
Marks & Clerk International Intellectual Property Firm
Editor-in-Chief,
Marks & Clerk Life Sciences Report 2015
From Rare to Routine:
Medicines for Rare Diseases, Vaccines & Antibiotics



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July 7, 2015

DR. TINA SEELIG

Professor of the Practice, Stanford University
Author, Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of your Head and into the World

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Moira speaks with Stanfords DR. TINA SEELIG about transforming the ideas that occur to you into action ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DANIEL KRAFT

Founder, Exponential Medicine
Chair of Medicine,
Singularity University

... the future of wearables and our health ...




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June 30, 2015

LEEROM SEGAL

President & CEO, Klick Health
Author, The Decoded Company

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Moira speaks with Leerom Segal of Klick Health about their view of organizations today - it turns out that the ecosystem of a company is more important than its organization chart ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


PIETER VAN ROOYEN

President & CEO, Edico Genome

... a faster way to decode whole genomes ...



DR. STEFAN LARSSON

Partner, Boston Consulting Group, Stockholm
DR. SOPHIA ERNESTAM
Senior Physician in Rheumatology, Karolinska Institute

... Use of patient registries to improve treatments ...




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June 23, 2015




DAN MOTE

President, National Academy of Engineering


Moira speaks with DAN MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering, about the difference between technology and engineering ...

 


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SIR JOHN CHISHOLM

Executive Chairman,
Genomics England

... the 100,000 Genomes Project ...






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June 16, 2015

GEOFF MOORE

Author, Crossing the Chasm ... updated 3rd edition
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Moira speaks with GEOFF MOORE about what happened when a hot tech company gets a lot of interest early on, but never makes it to mainstream success ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


ANNE WOJCICKI

Co-founder & CEO, 23andMe

... a grant from the NIH plus a partnership with Pfizer on Crohn's Disease ...

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June 9, 2015

DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical Center,
Author, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK about the effects of trauma on a person's brain, mind and body, treatments which can be effective, and what science does not yet know about the diagnosis of trauma ...

 




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MARTIN McGLYNN

President & CEO, StemCells, Inc.

... initial stem cell therapies showing progress in spinal cord injury, PMD and age-related macular degeneration ...

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June 2, 2015

DANIEL LEVITIN

Behavioral Neuroscientist
Professor, McGill University
Dean, Arts & Humanities, Minerva Schools at KGI
Author, The Organized Mind - Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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Moira speaks with DANIEL LEVITIN, whom some may know from his bestseller "This is Your Brain on Music". Today's information overload is today's subject - our brains need to operate differently today than they ever did before ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


MOHAN IYER

Chief Business Officer, Second Genome

... The most important genome in your body may not be your own - check out your gut microbiome ...

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May 26, 2015


2014 NOBEL PRIZES EXPLAINED !!!

Featuring Panel Convener:

LUDWIG CHINCARINI
Professor, Finance and Economics, University of San Francisco

Explaining the prize in LITERATURE:

GENARO PADILLA
Professor, English, UC Berkeley

Explaining the PEACE prize:

STEPHEN ZUNES
Professor, Politics, University of San Francisco

Explaining the ECONOMICS prize:

JOE FARRELL
Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley

Explaining two prizes - in PHYSICS and in CHEMISTRY:

CONNIE CHANG
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Explaining the prize in PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:

JAI YU
Neuroscientist, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, UC San Francisco

On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors on the annual feature: "2014 Nobel Prizes Explained" ...

 


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May 19, 2015

LIOR ZOREF

Former Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft,
Consumer and Online Services
Author, Mindsharing, The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything

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Moira speaks with LIOR ZOREF about how crowdsourcing has expanded far more than originally envisioned ...

 




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DR JOE MILETICH

Senior Vice President, R&D, Amgen

... oncolytic viruses target cancer, and lowering cholesterol based on genetics ...

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May 12, 2015

ED CATMULL

President, Pixar Animation and Disney Animation
Author, Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the way of True inspiration

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Moira speaks with Pixar Animation President ED CATMULL about creativity and about the experience of the digital movie Toy Story when 80% done, Pixar lost both the main files and the back-up files ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


MARJANNE PRINS

CEO, OrgaNext Research

... a different approach to recovery for hip fractures ...

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May 5, 2015

JUAN ENRIQUEZ
Futurist and Venture Capitalist Author, Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth

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Moira speaks with JUAN ENRIQUEZ about how intentional mutations we can now engineer may and will change life as we know it ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR BARBARA FOX

CEO, Avaxia Biologics

... pediatric IBD inflammatory bowel disease ...

DR. DR CRAIG AUDET
Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Arena Pharmaceuticals

... an FDA-approved obesity drug also considered for smoking cessation ...

 


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April 28, 2015

BRIAN FAGAN
Emeritus professor of Anthropology
UC Santa Barbara
Author, The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

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Moira speaks with Anthopology professor Brian Fagan about the evidence of connection between man and animals throughout history, and its undeniable impact ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR ESZTER NAGY

CEO, Arsanis

... utilizing old scientific knowledge to create antibodies against MRSA ...

DR. Dr. JACK HU
Director of Engineering, Arytha Biosciences

... a toxin nano-sponge to mop up MRSA ...

 


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April 21, 2015

PAUL VIGNA and MICHAEL J. CASEY
Wall Street Journal columnistsCo-Authors, The Age of Cryptocurrency How Bitcoin aand Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order

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Moira speaks with Wall Street Journal columnists PAUL VIGNA and MICHAEL J. CASEY talk about Bitcoin, digital money and all manner of trusted vehicles of value in the Internet Age ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. WALTER OGIER

CEO, Acetylon Pharmaceuticals

... a strategic approach to fighting drug resistance in the blood cancer Multiple Myeloma ...

 


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April 14, 2015

CHUCK MARTIN
CEO, Mobile Future Institute
Author, Mobile Influence: The New Power of the Consumer
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Moira speaks with CHUCK MARTIN, who tells us we no longer *go* shopping we always *are* shopping ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

TIM EVAVOLD
Director of Automotive Delivery, Covisint

Moira speaks with Covisint's TIMOTHY EVAVOLD about online services for all car manufacturers can easily come together ...

 


DR. MIKE DAVIES
CEO, Blueberry Therapeutics

... a new approach to MRSA the bacterium resistant to our traditional antibiotics ...

 


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April 7, 2015

MARC GOODMAN
Former FBI Futurist-in-Residence
Author, Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It

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Moira speaks with former FBI Futurist-in-Residence MARC GOODMAN talks about how cybercrime will affect us in the future ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. LAURA SHAWVER

CEO, Cleave Biosciences
Founder, Clearity Foundation

... new strategies in support of ovarian cancer ...

 


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March 31, 2015

MATT RICHTEL
Pulitzer Prize winner
New York Times journalist
Author, A Deadly Wandering

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and Matt's novel: The Doomsday Equation

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Moira speaks with New York Times journalist Matt Richtel about his two books - one non-fiction about the first case of texting while driving, and a novel where computers predict the end of civilization ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. KEVIN COX

CEO, Imanova

PROFESSOR ROGER GUNN
Professor of Molecular Neuroimaging
Imperial College London
Chief Scientific Officer, Imanova

... discovering where medications go throughout the body ...

 


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March 24, 2015

MICHAEL GAZZANIGA
UC Santa Barbara Professor, Neuroscience
Author, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

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Moira speaks with UC Santa Barbara professor MICHAEL GAZZANIGA. He tells us about both sides of our brains in fact, there are many parts to our brains not just a right hemisphere, and a left ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:




PROFESSOR DAME SALLY DAVIES

UK Governments Senior Medical Advisor
Chief Medical Officer for England

Author, The Drugs Dont Work: A Global Threat




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... the UKs plan to fight drug resistance ...



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March 17, 2015

GUY KAWASAKI
Former Apple Evangelist
PEG FITZPATRICK
Social Media Strategist
Co-Author, The Art of Social Media Power Tips for Power Users
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Moira speaks with GUY KAWASAKI and PEG FITZPATRICK about how to work effectively with social media to create value for yourself and others ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR K. JOHN MORROW, JR.

Biotech/Genetics Journalist and Researcher
Author,
Cancer, Autism and their Epigenetic Roots

... epigenetics - Science has learned what surrounds your DNA affects its function ...

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March 10, 2015

CARMINE GALLO
Forbes.com's "Communications Coach"
Author, Talk Like TED

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Moira speaks with Forbes.com "Communications Coach" CARMINE GALLO about how to speak like all those speakers at TED theres actually a little science to it! ...

 







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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. STEVEN POWELL

CEO, Virttu Biologics

... adding a virus to a cancer treatment to make it more effective ...

 


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March 3, 2015

MICHAEL SHERMER
Scientific American columnist
Editor-in-Chief, skeptic.com
Author, The Moral Arc How Science and reason lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom

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Moira speaks with Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer about how science and reason shape humanity's perspective over time ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. RIANN CONRADIE

Executive Founder, LifeQ

... modelling the human body and you can participate ...

ROBERT COULL
CEO, Scioderm

... new success in treating EB Epidermolysis Bulossa ...

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February 24, 2015

PETER NOWAK
Technology Journalist
Author, Humans 3.0 ... the Upgrading of the Species

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Moira speaks with Canadian Tech Journalist Peter Nowak about the impact on humans given today's technology - we've gone beyond Humans 2.0, all the way to version 3.0 ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. NEIL WARMA

President and CEO, Opexa Therapeutics

... promising efforts in treating the secondary progressive stage of Multiple Sclerosis ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... DNA testing of herbal supplements shows contents can be problematic ...

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February 17, 2015

DR. ERIC TOPOL
Cardiologist and Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Author, The Patient Will See You Now The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

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Moira speaks with Scripps Genomics professor and cardiologist DR. ERIC TOPOL about the massive changes coming now that there is an explosion of patient data - all sourced by electronic devices and the patient ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. RICHARD BINIER

CEO, Vigilant, Lausanne, Switzerland

... their CES 2015 Innovation Award-winning technology for insulin-dependent diabetics ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the promise of wearable technologies ...

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February 10, 2015

DAVID LINDEN
Neuroscience Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Author, Touch The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind

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Moira speaks with Johns Hopkins neuroscience professor David J. Linden about Touch - that "always-on" sense that links physical sensation to brain and emotion ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. ANTHONY RAESIDE

Head of Research, The Evaluate Group, London

... Evaluate Pharma World Preview Report 2014 Outlook to 2020 ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... President Obamas announcement about a precision medicine initiative ...

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February 3, 2015



SIR ANDREW DILLON
CEO, NICE, the UKs National Institute for Health and Care Excellence


Moira speaks with SIR ANDREW DILLON, the CEO of NICE, about the challenges and opportunities of creating policy for the National Health Service ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:

DR. DAVID BORKHOLDER
Bausch & Lomb Associate Professor of Microsystems Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Founder and CTO,
Blackbox Biometrics

... impact technology for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan experiencing IEDs, now available to measuring everyday concussive events in sports ...

DR. SIMON CHERRY
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
University of California, Davis

... the development of a whole body scanner to detect and qualify cancer in a single sweep ...

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January 27, 2015



Broadcasting from the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada ...

featuring :

SHAWN DUBRAVAC
Chief Economist and Director of Research
Consumer Electronics Association

STEVE KOENIG
Director of Industry Analysis
Consumer Electronics Association

JIM BARRY
Media Spokesperson
Consumer Electronics Association

MARK DEVINE
Senior Vice President
Jarden Safety and Security
"FirstAlert" and innovation from the OneLink family of products


On this weeks Tech Nation, the Tech Nation crew attends the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 to find out what's new about the economics of consumer electronics, global industry trends, and what's new this year in cutting edge products ...

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January 20, 2015



ANTONY TAUBMAN
Director, Intellectual Property Division
World Trade Organization


Moira speaks with ANTONY TAUBMAN from the World Trade Organization about a joint report from the WTO, the WHO and WIPO ...

 


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... and on BioTech Nation:


GARETH WILLIAMS
Life Science Attorneys
MARKS & CLERK

... 2014 Life Science report: Genome 2.0 intellectual property ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Some of us are SUPERPEOPLE! ...

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December 30, 2014

SVANTE PAABO
Chair, Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Author, Neanderthal Man ... in search of lost genomes
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Moira speaks with SVANTE PAABO about decoding the DNA of Neanderthal Man it came from the first Neanderthal bone ever found in the 1800's ...

 




ARIANNE HOYLAND
Game Producer, United Healthcare

... Dance Dance Revolution for school gym classes play a role in the fight against childhood obesity ...

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with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Davids article for Newsweek: Hacking your DNA ...

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December 23, 2014

BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO
Professors, Stanford University
Co-Authors, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less
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Moira speaks with Stanford professors BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO about their 7 years of research into scaling up the excellence which made an organization successful in the first place ...

 

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SANJ SINGH

President & CEO, Ade ("ah-day") Therapeutics



... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DAVID MARTIN
Co-Founder, CEO and Chair, Avidbiotics Corporation
DR. JEFF MILLER
UCLA Medical School
President, American Society for Microbiology
Co-Founder, Avidbiotics Corporation

... your gut microbiome for better and for worse ...

... antibiotic resistance and what can be done about it ...


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January 6, 2015

STEVEN PINKER
Harvard Professor
Author, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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Moira speaks with Harvard professor Steven Pinker about how we write today - Turns out that the Internet isn't making us illiterate! ...

 



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DR. BERNARD PECOUL

Vice Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative

... neglected diseases need new drugs all their own ...

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January 12, 2015



KEITH ROCKWELL
Director of Information and Externals Relations, World Trade Organization


Moira speaks with KEITH ROCKWELL from the World Trade Organization about the WTOs latest successes and challenges. ...

 

... preventing fibroids and fibrotic diseases post-surgery ...

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December 16, 2014

TOM STANDAGE
Digital Editor, The Economist
Author, Writing on the Wall: Social Media, The First 2,000 Years
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Moira speaks with The Economist's Digital Editor, TOM STANDAGE, about the "centuries-old" tradition of Social Media ...

 

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with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Rare Science ...

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December 9, 2014

MARK FAINARU-WADA
ESPN investigative journalist
Author, League of Denial The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
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Moira speaks with ESPN investigative journalist MARK FAINARU-WADA about good science and bad big money - and what we do now that we know - about the impact of concussions in the NFL ...

 

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CHRIS GARABEDIAN

CEO, Surepta Therapeutics

... what progress for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Beam me up, Scotty! this time with your DNA ...
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December 2, 2014

RUTH DEFRIES
MacArthur Winner
Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Author, The Big Ratchet How Humanity Survives in the Face of Natural Crisis, a biography of an ingenious species

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Moira speaks with RUTH DEFRIES about the astonishing impact humanity has had and continues to have on the Earth ...

 




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DR. TOM GIBBS
Director, DebioPharm

... moving science to products in colorectal cancer and more ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... a new study on medical treatments you may want to go one town over ...

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November 25, 2014

CHRISTINE KENNEALLY
Journalist and Author, The Invisible History of the Human Race How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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Moira speaks with CHRISTINE KENNEALLY about how DNA - while only recently decoded - has been intrinsically intertwined with human history ...

 




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DR. BRIAN WAMHOFF
Co-Founder and Vice President R&D, Hemoshear

... a technology breakthrough helping to qualify the potential for new drug compounds ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the new number what it costs to develop a new drug ...

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November 18, 2014

WALTER ISAACSON
President and CEO, Aspen Institute
Author, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about the lesser known innovators whose efforts have affected us all ...

 




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ART BONI

The John R. Thorne Distinguished Career Professor of Entrepreneurship
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie-Mellon University

STEVE SAMMUT
Senior Fellow in Health Care Management
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Co-founders, BIOs Bioentrepreneurship Boot Camp

... How to become a bioentrepreneur ...


DR. JAY LICHTER
Venture Partner, Avalon Ventures

... venture capitalists and crucial start-up funding ...

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November 11, 2014

NICHOLAS CARR

Author, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
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Moira speaks with former Harvard Business Review Executive Editor NICHOLAS CARR about the effect of technology all around us ...

 




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DR. ARIF ANWAR

Executive Director, Sengenics

... Detecting dieseases like Cancer and Diabetes five or more years before symptoms appear ...


DR. CHUCK BAUM

President & CEO, Mirati Therapeutics

... decoding the DNA of tumors cancer is no longer associated with the body part it appears in ...

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November 4, 2014


2014 NOBEL PRIZES EXPLAINED !!!

Featuring Panel Convener:

LUDWIG CHINCARINI
Professor, Finance and Economics, University of San Francisco

Explaining the prize in LITERATURE:

GENARO PADILLA
Professor, English, UC Berkeley

Explaining the PEACE prize:

STEPHEN ZUNES
Professor, Politics, University of San Francisco

Explaining the ECONOMICS prize:

JOE FARRELL
Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley

Explaining two prizes - in PHYSICS and in CHEMISTRY:

CONNIE CHANG
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Explaining the prize in PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:

JAI YU
Neuroscientist, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, UC San Francisco

On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors on the annual feature: "2014 Nobel Prizes Explained" ...

 


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October 28, 2014

ALIX CHRISTIE

Journalist & Author, Gutenbergs Apprentice
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Moira speaks with ALIX CHRISTIE about Gutenbergs Apprentice like all technology, it turns out it was a team effort ...

 




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STAN ERCK

President & CEO, NovaVax

... Vaccines to fight viruses, such as RSV in young children ...


DR PEARL HUANG
Global Head, Discovery Partnership with Academic (DPAC), GlaxoSmithKline

... seeking university researchers in the hunt for new drugs ...

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October 21, 2014

ADAM TANNER

Fellow, Harvards Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Author, What Stays in Vegas The World of Personal Data Lifeblood of Big Business and the End of Privacy as We Know It

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Moira speaks with ADAM TANNER about the amazing data collected on everyone who goes to Vegas and the far-reaching data collected everywhere ...

 




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TODD SKRINAR

Principal for Life Sciences Advisory,
Leader for Big Data Advanced Analytics,
Ernst & Young

... All those clinical trials needed to prove a drug is safe? Big data and getting bigger ...

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October 14, 2014

DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical Center,
Author, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK about the effects of trauma on a person's brain, mind and body, treatments which can be effective, and what science does not yet know about the diagnosis of trauma ...

 




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MARTIN McGLYNN

President & CEO, StemCells, Inc.

... initial stem cell therapies showing progress in spinal cord injury, PMD and age-related macular degeneration ...

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October 7, 2014

CHRISTIAN RUDDER

President and head of Data Analytics, OkCupid
Author, Dataclysm - Who We Are (When We Think No Ones Looking)

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Moira speaks with CHRISTIAN RUDDER, OkCupid president and head of analytics - the data tells us what we might not like hearing ...

 




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DR. ANITA GOEL

CEO, NanoBioSym
Winner, 2013 Nokia Sensing X-Prize

... a small mobile medical device for detecting disease ...

RICHARD POPS
CEO, Alkermes

... maybe two or more diseases are really only one? Maybe they just need a single drug ...

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September 30, 2014

FRITJOF CAPRA

Physicist and Systems Theorist
Author, Learning from Leonardo ... Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius

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Moira speaks with Fritjof Capra. He spent 10 years studying the original notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and yes, there's genius there ...

 




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STEPHEN HURST

Chairman and CEO, Savant HWP Health, Wellness and Prevention

... a new approach to addiction ...

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September 23, 2014

DAN JURAFSKY

Stanford Linguistics Professor
Author, The Language of Food - A Linguist Reads the Menu

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Moira speaks with Stanford professor Dan Juravsky. Through the centuries and around the globe, the food we eat today started their journeys long ago and far away ...

 




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LEE JONES

CEO, Rebiotix

... treating severe bacterial infections called c. difficile ...



ANDREW STRONG
CEO, Kalon Biotherapeutics

... massive doses of vaccines in times of pandemic + precision cancer vaccines ...

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September 16, 2014

MICHAEL HARRIS

Journalist & Author, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What Weve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
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Moira speaks with Journalist MICHAEL HARRIS about how he opted out of digital technology for a month he tells us its lonely, but rewarding ...

 




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TERRY McAULIFFE

Governor, State of Virginia

... Virginia is not just for lovers Virginia means biotech ...



JIM GREENWOOD
President and CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

... What Richard Branson and Hillary Clinton have to say about biotech ...

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September 9, 2014

DANIEL LEVITIN

Behavioral Neuroscientist
Professor, McGill University
Dean, Arts & Humanities, Minerva Schools at KGI
Author, The Organized Mind - Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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Moira speaks with DANIEL LEVITIN, whom some may know from his bestseller "This is Your Brain on Music". Today's information overload is today's subject - our brains need to operate differently today than they ever did before ...

 




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MOHAN IYER

Chief Business Officer, Second Genome

... The most important genome in your body may not be your own - check out your gut microbiome ...

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September 2, 2014

GEOFF MOORE

Author, Crossing the Chasm ... updated 3rd edition
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Moira speaks with GEOFF MOORE about what happened when a hot tech company gets a lot of interest early on, but never makes it to mainstream success ...

 




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ANNE WOJCICKI

Co-founder & CEO, 23andMe

... a grant from the NIH plus a partnership with Pfizer on Crohn's Disease ...

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August 26, 2014

MARCELO GLEISER

Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
Author, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

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Moira speaks with Dartmouth professor MARCELO GLEISER about his latest book, The Island of Knowledge. He looks at all of science, how it changes over time, and what it can and cant tell us. ...

 




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DR. KATE RITTENHOUSE-OLSON

President, For-Robin

... Triple-negative breast cancer approach may solve metastasis ...

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August 19, 2014

MARY ROACH

Science Writer (... sort of)
Author, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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Moira speaks with MARY ROACH about her book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. (Clue: The alimentary canal is nowhere to be found on google maps) ...

 




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Dr. MICHAEL OELLERICH

Medical Faculty at George August University, Gottingen, Germany
Medical advisory board,
Chronix Biomedical
Dr. GEORGE KARLIN-NEUMANN
Director of Scientific Affairs
Digital Biology Center,
Bio-Rad Laboratories

... Organ transplants are actually genome transplants - key information with respect to determining organ rejection ...

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August 12, 2014

ED CATMULL

President, Pixar Animation and Disney Animation
Author, Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the way of True inspiration

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Moira speaks with Pixar Animation President ED CATMULL about creativity and about the experience of the digital movie Toy Story when 80% done, Pixar lost both the main files and the back-up files ...

 




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MARJANNE PRINS

CEO, OrgaNext Research

... a different approach to recovery for hip fractures ...

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August 5, 2014

MICHELLE DENNEDY

Chief Privacy Officer, McAfee, a part of Intel Security
Author, The Privacy Engineers Manifesto

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Moira speaks with MICHELLE DENNEDY about a responsible view of privacy - from individuals to corporations ...

 




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DR. JOHN BEADLE

CEO, PsiOxus Therapeutics

... oncolytic viruses for colorectal and ovarian cancers ...

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July 29, 2014




DR. ROGERIO RIBEIRO

Senior Vice President
Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific
GlaxoSmithKline





Moira speaks with GSK's ROGERIO RIBEIRO about how genetics and medical needs differ worldwide ...

 





KIRILL KAEM

Director, Skolkovo Biomedical Cluster





... and with KIRILL KAEM about a new biocluster near Moscow with 240 new companies in just 2 years ...

 


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STEVE SAMMUT
Senior Fellow, Health Care Management,
University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School
DANIEL LEVINE

Principal, Levine Media Group

Co-Authors, Accelerating Growth ... Forging Indias Bioeconomy

... A Special Report on India ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the microbes in our mouths ...

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July 22, 2014



A collaboration on concussion funded by the General Electric/National Football league Head Health Challenge ...

featuring:

Dr. GUNNAR CARLSSON
Stanford Mathematics Professor
Co-Founder, AYASDI
DR. PEK LUM
Chief Data Scientist, AYASDI

DR. ADAM FERGUSON
UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center

On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of three scientists studying concussion - brain imaging meets Big Data and genomics ...

 

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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Decoding our minds? ...

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July 15, 2014




DR. REGIS KELLY

Director, QB3 the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences





Moira speaks with QB3's REGIS KELLY about the nature of innovation - and fostering the innovation mindset ...

 




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PAUL HASTINGS

CHAIR & CEO, Oncomed Pharmaceuticals

... disruptive science ...

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July 8, 2014

DAVID MONTGOMERY
Professor of Geomorphology
University of Washington
Author, The Rocks Dont Lie: A Geologist investigates Noahs Flood

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Moira speaks with MacArthur Fellow David Montgomery on the beginnings of geology, and the centuries-old search for geological evidence of Noahs flood ...

 




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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... science can change us from optimistic to pessimistic and back again ...

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July 1, 2014

KENNETH CUKIER

First Data Editor, The Economist
Author, Learning with Big Data The Future of Education

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Moira speaks with KENNETH CUKIER about Big Data's impact on education, teachers and students ...

 




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KEN KELLY

CEO, PaxVax

... how to vaccinate 6.5 billion people in less than 120 days for less than a dollar a dose ...

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June 24, 2014

ANEESH CHOPRA

First Chief Technology Officer, United States
Author, Innovative State How New Technologies Can Transform Government

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Moira speaks with ANEESH CHOPRA about how government can go digital and it can work for everyone ...

 




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DR RAJEEV VENKAYYA

Executive Vice President,
Vaccine Business, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

... vaccines for everyone new vaccines, that is ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Top Ten Innovations of 2013 from the Cleveland Clinic ...

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June 17, 2014

JARED DIAMOND

Pulitzer Prize Winner, Guns, Germs and Steel
Author, The World Until Yesterday

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Moira speaks with JARED DIAMOND about our world today - and what we might learn from traditional societies ...

 




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SIMON WILKINSON

Director and CEO, Innate ImmunoTherapeutics

... a drug for later stage Multiple Sclerosis ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... technology will become your new personal physician ...

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June 10, 2014

EDWARD FRENKEL
UC Berkeley Mathematics Professor
Author, Love and Math the Heart of Hidden Reality
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Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere in our lives ...

 




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DR. DAVID MARTIN

Scientific Founder and CEO, AvidBiotics

... a different approach to antibiotics ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Are Humans still evolving? ...

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June 3, 2014

SEAN CARROLL
Genetics Professor, University of Wisconsin
Author, Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

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Moira speaks with geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius - two Nobel Prize-winners who were committed to the French Resistance during World War II ...

 




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DR. JOE MILETICH


Senior VP for Research and Development, Amgen Corporation

... how decoding each human's genome will affect the drugs of our future...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Google vs. Death ...

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May 27, 2014

ANNALEE NEWITZ
Journalist and Author, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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Moira speaks with journalist ANNALEE NEWITZ - they look at the past, present and possible future of mass extinctions ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


ALEXIS WALLACE

President & CEO, Thrombolytic Science International (TSI) ...

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May 20, 2014

MICHIO KAKU
Professor of Theoretical Physics
City College and City University of New York
Host, Multiple BBC and Discovery Channels series
Author, The Future of the Mind
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Moira speaks with MICHIO KAKU about the scientific quest to understand and empower the mind ...

 




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DR. CHUCK SHOEMAKER


Professor, Veterinary School, Tufts University

... an anti-serum for bio-terrorism ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Shakespeare -- and DNA ...


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May 13, 2014



NOBEL LAUREATES EXPLAINED !!!

featuring University of San Francisco Professors:

LUDWIG CHINCARINI
Finance and Economics
DEAN RADER
English

STEPHEN ZUNES
Politics
JESSE ANTTILA-HUGHES
Economics
APARNA VENKATESAN
Astronomy and Physics
JASON FERNANDEZ
Biology

On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors from the University of San Francisco it's "2013 Nobel Prizes Explained"

 

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May 6, 2014




FRANCIS MAUDE

Minister for the Cabinet Office
United Kingdom





Moira speaks with UK Minister FRANCIS MAUDE about the UKs initiative for digital government services -- digital by default...

 

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DR. JENNIFER MILLER


Founding Director, Bioethics International

... rating the transparency of Pharmaceutical companies ...


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April 29, 2014

JEREMY RIFKIN
Author, The Zero Marginal Cost Society
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JEREMY RIFKIN talks about the Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons and the Eclipse of Capitalism ...

 




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DR. JAY SIEGEL


Chief Biotechnology Officer
Janssen, the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

... New treatments and making existing treatments better ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... IBMs advanced computer Watson goes to medical school ...


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April 22, 2014

CARMINE GALLO
Forbes.com's "Communications Coach"
Author, Talk Like TED
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Moira speaks with the Forbes.com "Communications Coach" CARMINE GALLO about how to speak like all those speakers at TED theres actually a little science to it!

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR STEVEN POWELL


CEO, Virttu Biologics

... Adding a virus to cancer treatments to make them more effective ...


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April 15, 2014

SVANTE PAABO
Chair, Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Author, Neanderthal Man ... in search of lost genomes
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Moira speaks with SVANTE PAABO about decoding the DNA of Neanderthal Man it came from the first Neanderthal bone ever found in the 1800's ...

 




ARIANNE HOYLAND
Game Producer, United Healthcare

... Dance Dance Revolution for school gym classes play a role in the fight against childhood obesity ...

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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Davids article for Newsweek: Hacking your DNA ...


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April 8, 2014

WILLIAM EASTERLY
Professor of Economics, NYU
Author, The Tyranny of Experts: Economics, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
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Moira speaks with NYU professor William Easterly about the technology and the global poor - promise or overhyped ??? ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JAY TUNG


Chief Research Officer, Myelin Repair Foundation

... directly repairing myelin in the brain ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... IBMs advanced computer Watson goes to medical school ...


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April 1, 2014

ELIZABETH KOLBERT
Journalist, The New Yorker magazine
Author, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Moira speaks with New Yorker magazine journalist ELIZABETH KOLBERT - does science see another mass extinction ??? ...

 




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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. BAHIJA JALLAL


Executive Vice President, Medimmune

... the new biopharma pipeline in global pharmaceuticals ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... J. Craig Venters new company: Human Longevity, Inc. ...


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March 25, 2014

JOHN DEARIE
Executive Vice President, Financial Services Forum
Author,
Where the Jobs Are

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Moira speaks with JOHN DEARIE about who creates the really, really new jobs that didnt exist before, and what we can do to encourage their creation ...

 




EBEN UPTON
Co-Founder, Raspberry Pi

JEN PADGETT
CEO, Community Technology Alliance

... a $25 credit card-size computer and a solar-powered backpack to create a network ...

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... and on BioTech Nation:


FRANK BALL


CEO, Evena Medical

... a new way to find veins on the first try ...
DR ROBERT McNALLY

President & CEO, GeoVax

... an update on an HIV vaccine both preventative and in treatment ...



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March 18, 2014

ALAIN DE BOTTON
Journalist
Author, The News: A User's Manual
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Moira speaks with ALAIN DE BOTTON about what's happened to The News in this digital age. ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR MIKE JIROUSEK

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Catabasis

... an approach to double the odds that a drug will hit its target ...



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March 11, 2014

ANNIE JACOBSEN
Journalist
Author, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America after World War II
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Moira speaks with Journalist ANNIE JACOBSEN about how NASA and other federal government agencies came to be staffed by former Nazi Scientists after World War II ...

 




DAN BOTWINICK
Vice President for Program Development, Zamzee

... using games to fight childhood obesity ...

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. BERTRAND LEPINE

President, Fab'entech

... using French horses to produce vaccines for humans ...



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March 4, 2014

SETH HOROWITZ
Brown University neuroscientist
Author, How Hearing Shapes Our Minds
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Moira speaks with Brown University neuroscientist SETH HOROWITZ about the acoustic wonders of dolphins, whales and clicking shrimp its noisy down there ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. MICHAEL LEEK
Commercial Operations Director, Pharmacells;

... deep-freeze your own adult stem cells ...



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February 25, 2014

DANIEL PINK

Author, To Sell is Human
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Moira speaks with DANIEL PINK about all the ways to need to "sell" in our lives - and the surprising science that says the least obvious people may make the best salesmen ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DON McCAFFREY
President and CEO, Resverlogix

... What's better than statins? repairing veins ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... David interviews Moira!! ...


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February 18, 2014

KEVIN KELLY
Former editor-in-chief, Wired magazine

Author, Cool Tools: A catalog of possibilities
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Moira speaks with KEVIN KELLY about "Cool Tools" - which are tools of every ilk, including books, ideas, experiences and everything else under the sun ...

 




JOE BUCH
CEO, Lynx Grills

... A Smart Grill it even texts you when it's ready ...

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... and on BioTech Nation:


BOB LINKE

President & CEO, Embera NeuroTherapeutics

... a different approach to quitting smoking ...



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February 11, 2014

ITAMAR SIMONSON
Professor of Marketing, Stanford Business School
EMANUEL ROSEN

Business Journalist
Co-Authors, Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information
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Moira speaks with Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen about the fact that we as consumers - have (nearly) perfect information about the products and services we choose ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. ANNALISA JENKINS

Head, Global Drug Development, EMD Serono

... patient-focused drug development ...



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February 4, 2014

BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO
Professors, Stanford University
Co-Authors, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less
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Moira speaks with Stanford professors BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO about their 7 years of research into scaling up the excellence which made an organization successful in the first place ...

 

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SANJ SINGH

President & CEO, Ade ("ah-day") Therapeutics

... preventing fibroids and fibrotic diseases post-surgery ...



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January 28, 2014



Broadcasting from the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada ...

featuring :

SHAWN DUBRAVAC
Chief Economist and Director of Research
Consumer Electronics Association

STEVE KOENIG
Director of Industry Analysis
Consumer Electronics Association

JIM BARRY
Media Spokesperson
Consumer Electronics Association

KEVIN KING
Inventor of the "Smart Basketball"
Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering
Infomotion Sports Technologies


On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 to find out what's new about the economics of consumer electronics, as well as global industry trends, and what it takes to be an entrepreneur it's not just big companies creating cutting edge products ...

 

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January 21, 2014

LARRY DOWNES
Columnist, Forbes and CNET
Author, Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation
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Moira speaks with LARRY DOWNES about why the changes we are experiencing now is much more disruptive than ever before ...

 

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DR INGMAR HOERR

CEO & Co-Founder, CureVac

... making vaccines to fight everything from cancer to bacterial infections ...



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January 14, 2014




STEVE BURRILL
CEO, Burrill & Co.

... 2013 Biotech Industry Wrap-Up ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


GAIL GIBSON HUNT

President & CEO, National Alliance for Care Giving

... 1 out of 4 American families care for family members no longer able to care for themselves ...



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January 7, 2014

JARON LANIER
Computer Scientist and Musician
Author, Who Owns the Future?
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Moira speaks with computer scientist, JARON LANIER, about the technological aspects of who might own our future, and what we could do about it ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


GENE WILLIAMS

Chairman & CEO, DART Therapeutics

... the challenge of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe ...



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December 31, 2013

MARGALIT FOX
New York Times journalist
Author, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Moira speaks with New York Times journalist MARGALIT FOX about what it took to decrypt the ancient writing system used by the Minoans - remember King Minos? The Minotaur? The Labyrinth? ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. TIM HUBBARD

Head, Human Genome Analysis
Sanger Institute

... Britain commits to begin using a patient's whole human genome in healthcare ...



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December 24, 2013

GUY KAWASAKI
Former Apple Evangelist and Venture Capitalist
Author, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book
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Moira speaks with GUY KAWASAKI about how to publish a book TODAY - you'll find the answers and ideas surprising ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


PETER WONG

COO, TruTag Technologies

... what you eat it all the time and it isn't organic -- it's great to fight counterfeiting ...



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December 17, 2013

MARK FAINARU-WADA
ESPN investigative journalist
Author, League of Denial The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
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Moira speaks with ESPN investigative journalist MARK FAINARU-WADA about good science and bad big money - and what we do now that we know - about the impact of concussions in the NFL ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


CHRIS GARABEDIAN

CEO, Surepta Therapeutics

... what progress for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Beam me up, Scotty! this time with your DNA ...

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December 10, 2013

WALTER ISAACSON
Former chairman, CNN
Biographer of Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Kissinger
Author, Steve Jobs
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Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about Steve Jobs - and how that perspective has evolved since the book first came out ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


TIM LOWINGER
Chief Scientific Officer,
Mersana Therapeutics

... new cancer treatments combining chemotherapies with biological drugs ...



MATT MAHONEY
Director, Business Development, North America
Brainwave Discovery

... human DNA in fruitflies to study Alzheimer's and Parkinsons ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... a salute to Nobel Laureate Frederick Sanger ...

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December 3, 2013

FRITJOF CAPRA
Physicist and Systems Theorist
Author, Learning from Leonardo Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius
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Moira speaks with FRITJOF CAPRA, who spent 10 years studying the original notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and yes, there's genius there ...

 




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STEPHEN HURST
Chairman and CEO,
Savant HWP Health, Wellness and Prevention

... a new approach to addiction ...



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November 25, 2013



NOBEL LAUREATES EXPLAINED !!!

featuring University of San Francisco Professors:

LUDWIG CHINCARINI
Finance and Economics
DEAN RADER
English

STEPHEN ZUNES
Politics
JESSE ANTTILA-HUGHES
Economics
APARNA VENKATESAN
Astronomy and Physics
JASON FERNANDEZ
Biology

On this weeks Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors from the University of San Francisco it's "2013 Nobel Prizes Explained"

 

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November 18, 2013

GAVIN NEWSOM
Lieutenant Governor of California
Author, Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
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Moira speaks with former San Francisco mayor and California Lieutenant Governor GAVIN NEWSOM on reinventing government in the digital age ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. CHUCK SHOEMAKER
Professor, Veterinary School, , Tufts University

... an anti-serum for bio-terrorism ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Shakespeare and DNA ...


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November 11, 2013

CLIVE THOMPSON
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine
Author, Smarter That You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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Moira speaks with CLIVE THOMPSON about how smart technology is making us ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR RAJEEV VENKAYYA
Executive Vice President,
Vaccine Business, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

... vaccines for everyone new vaccines, that is ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Top Ten Innovations of 2013 from the Cleveland Clinic ...


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November 4, 2013

PO BRONSON
Author, Top Dog
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Moira speaks with PO BRONSON on the Science of Winning and Losing ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. MIKE CLAYMAN
President and CEO, Flexion Therapeutics

... a new approach to osteoarthritis ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... new bioethical challenges in professional sports ...


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October 29, 2013

TOM STANDAGE
Digital Editor, The Economist
Author, Writing on the Wall: Social Media, The First 2,000 Years
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Moira speaks with The Economist's Digital Editor, TOM STANDAGE, about the "centuries-old" tradition of Social Media ...

 

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On BioIssue of the Week:


with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Rare Science ...


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October 22, 2013

EDWARD FRENKEL
UC Berkeley Mathematics Professor
Author, Love and Math the Heart of Hidden Reality
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Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere in our lives ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DAVID MARTIN
Scientific Founder and CEO, AvidBiotics

... a different approach to antibiotics ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Are Humans still evolving? ...


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October 15, 2013

DAN ROAM
Founder, The Napkin Academy
Author, Blah, Blah, Blah: What to do when words dont work
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Moira speaks with DAN ROAM about picturing ideas ... instead of talking about them or writing words, words, words ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


KEITH KATKIN
President & CEO, Avanir Pharmaceuticals

... emergent treatment for Pseudobulbar Affect affecting many stroke victims ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Are Humans still evolving? ...


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October 8, 2013

SEAN CARROLL
Genetics Professor, University of Wisconsin
Author, Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

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Moira speaks with geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius - two Nobel Prize-winners who were committed to the French Resistance during World War II.

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JOE MILETICH

Senior VP for Research and Development, Amgen Corporation

... how decoding each human's genome will affect the drugs of our future...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Google vs. Death ...


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October 1, 2013

DONALD McDONALD
Architect, New East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Author, Bay Bridge: History and Design of a New Icon

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Moira speaks with DONALD McDONALD, the architect of the new East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


MATTHEW HUDES

US Managing Principal, Life Sciences, Deloitte

... Healthcare Report: China, Brazil and Germany ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Could federal budget cuts affect on our future health? ...


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September 24, 2013

SHIRLEY STRESHINSKY &
PATRICIA KLAUS

Co-Authors, An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer's Life
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Moira speaks with SHIRLEY STRESHINSKY & PATRICIA KLAUS about that time in American life when a scientist and science were forefront in the minds of the public they talk about the atomic bomb, the media embrace of Robert Oppenheimer, and national interests in the post-World War II Cold War ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


SAMANTHA COBB

CEO, AdAlta

... new therapeutics based on shark antibodies ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


GRAHAM BROOKES

Director, PGEconomics

... environmental impact of biotech on global agriculture ...



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September 17, 2013

ALEX PANG
Futurist
Author, The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information you need and the communication you want without enraging your family annoying your colleagues and destroying your soul
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Moira speaks with Futurist Alex Pang about life in modern times ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


ALEX KARLE

COO, The Evaluate Group

... EvaluatePharma 2013 the Orphan Drug Report ...



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September 10, 2013

DR SANJAY BASU
Professor, Stanford University Medical School
Author, The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills
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Moira speaks with Stanford's Dr. Sanjay Basu about how cutting some social programs when times are bad hurts more than we realize it's actually right there in the economics data ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DAVID PRITCHARD

CEO, KaloBios

... a new approach to hospital acquired infections, which also helps cystic fibrosis...



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September 3, 2013

CLIFTON LEAF
Fortune magazine Contributing Editor
Author, The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It
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Moira speaks with CLIFTON LEAF at the 40 year old war on cancer ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. BEN CHEN

Executive Chairman, Immune Targeting Systems

... why your T cells are great candidates for fighting immune system challenges, from the flu to cancer ...



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August 27, 2013

DAVID EPSTEIN
Senior Writer from Sports Illustrated
Author, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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Moira speaks with Sports Illustrated's DAVID EPSTEIN about sports and athletic performance ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. MELISSA ALCORN

Intellectual Property Attorney, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

... decades of tissue samples from Lupus now digitally available for general medical research ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... if your DNA is online, can someone figure out it's you? ...


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August 20, 2013

RAY KURZWEIL
National Medal of Technology winner
Author, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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Moira speaks with RAY KURZWEIL about how the mind is structured inside the brain - and how much room you have, now that there is the Internet ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


MIKE MARTINO

President & CEO, Ambit Biosciences

... progress with Acute Myeloid Leukemia ...



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August 13, 2013

AJIT VARKI
Professor, UC San Diego

Author, Denial Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
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Moira speaks with DR. AJIT VARKI about why did humans develop such complex mental abilities and other species did not ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


KEN KELLY

CEO, PaxVax

... how to vaccinate 6.5 billion people in less than 120 days for less than a dollar a dose ...



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August 6, 2013

SARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS
Health and Science Journalist

Author, Motherhood Rescheduled: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing and the Women Who Tried It
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Moira speaks with SARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about re-scheduling Motherhood women can actually freeze their own eggs ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


CLIFF STOCKS

CEO, TheraClone Sciences

... newly-formulated flu shots ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the microbiome there's a hundred trillion critters in each of us ...


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July 30, 2013

GUNNAR CARLSSON
Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Co-Founder, Ayasdi, Palo Alto, CA


Moira speaks with GUNNAR CARLSSON about Big Data and its applications today and tomorrow ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JOHN BEADLE

CEO, PsiOxus Therapeutics
Oxford, England

... oncolytic viruses ...



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July 23, 2013

MARIO LIVIO
Astrophysicist,
Space Telescope Science Institute

Author, Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein
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Moira speaks with MARIO LIVIO about Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that changed our understanding of Life and the Universe ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


GARETH WILLIAMS

European Patent Attorney, Marks & Clerk
Cambridge, England

... considerations vis-a-vis global biotech patents ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the Supreme Court and their Myriad Genetics decision ...


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July 16, 2013

Tech Nation broadcasts from the International Biotechnology Conference, BIO 2013, in Chicago, Illinois

JIM GREENWOOD
President & CEO
Biotechnology Industry Organization

RACHEL KING
Chair
Biotechnology Industry Organization

CEO
GlycoMimetics, addressing Sickle Cell Disease

MIKE MAY
Editorial Director
YALI FRIEDMAN

Editor, WorldView Scorecard
Scientific American WorldView 2013

STEVE BURRILL
CEO
Burrill & Co., Venture Capital, Merchant Banking and Media

GLEN GIOMANETTI
Global Life Sciences Leader
Ernst & Young



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July 9, 2013

GARY SHAPIRO
President & CEO
Consumer Electronics Association

Author, Ninja Innovation
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Moira speaks with Consumer Electronics Association President GARY SHAPIRO about the nature of innovation and what that means to each of us individually ...

 




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DR. JOHN LATHAM

Chief Scientific Officer, Alder Bio

... a new way to control our cholesterol based on the DNA of very low cholesterol human beings ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... a new poll measures our understanding of science ...


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July 2, 2013

BRIAN FAGAN
Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
Author, The Attacking Ocean The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels
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Moira speaks with DR. BRIAN FAGAN about the rising Ocean what the Earth looked like during the Ice Age, as opposed to today ... and what will it look like in the years to come ... ...

 

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MIKE WEBB

CEO, Allegro Diagnostics

... a DNA diagnostic for the #1 cancer lung cancer ...



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June 25, 2013

MARGALIT FOX
New York Times journalist
Author, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Moira speaks with New York Times journalist MARGALIT FOX about what it took to decrypt the ancient writing system used by the Minoans - remember King Minos? The Minotaur? The Labyrinth? ...

 

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DR. TIM HUBBARD

Head, Human Genome Analysis
Sanger Institute

... Britain commits to begin using a patient's whole human genome in healthcare ...



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June 18, 2013

DANIEL DENNETT
Professor, Tufts University
Author, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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Moira speaks with DANIEL DENNETT about tools to help us improve our thinking, warning signals when someone is introducing false logic, and other challenges in human communication ...

 

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DR. JAMES BREITMEYER

President, BN ImmunoTherapeutics

... a different approach to treating prostate cancer ...



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June 11, 2013

JARON LANIER
Computer Scientist and Musician
Author, Who Owns the Future?
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Moira speaks with computer scientist, JARON LANIER, about the technological aspects of who might own our future, and what we could do about it ...

 

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GENE WILLIAMS

Chairman & CEO, DART Therapeutics

... the challenge of Duschene Muscular Dystrophe ...



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June 4, 2013

GEORGE CHURCH
Harvard Medical School Genetics Professor
Author, Regenesis
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Moira speaks with Harvard Medical School Genetics professor GEORGE CHURCH about how Synthetic Biology may reinvent every living thing ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


COLIN HILL

Chairman & CEO, GNS Healthcare

... big yields from the data exhaust of the healthcare system ...



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May 28, 2013

STEVEN PINKER
Harvard University Professor, Psychology
Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Moira speaks with Harvard psychology professor STEVEN PINKER tells us about how humans are behaving better ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DAN STINCHCOMB
Envirogen

... the fight against Dengue Fever ...



DR OLIVER FETZER
Cerulean Pharma

... a nano-particle approach to treating lung cancer ...


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May 21, 2013

ANNALEE NEWITZ
Journalist and Author, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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Moira speaks with journalist ANNALEE NEWITZ - they look at the past, present and possible future of mass extinctions. ...

 

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ALEXIS WALLACE
President & CEO, Thrombolytic Science International (TSI)

... A New Approach to Stroke ...


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May 14, 2013

JON GERTNER
Author, The Idea Factory Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Moira speaks with New York Times magazine's JON GERTNER about the familiar technologies in our lives which all came from Bell Labs ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DON JOSEPH
President, BIO Ventures for Global Health

... Biotech tackles global health ...



DAVID GASS
Patent Attorney,
Marshall, Gerstein, Borun

... the Supreme Court considers biotech ...


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May 7, 2013

JONAH BERGER
Professor of Marketing, Wharton Business School
Author, Contagious Why Things Catch On
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Moira speaks with JONAH BERGER about why some products catch on, some don't, and the power of clever social media campaigns videos all on calculus ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


PASCALE WITZ
President and CEO
Medical Diagnostics, GE Healthcare
JONATHAN ALLIS

General Manager, Positron Emission Tomography
GE Healthcare

... The Future of Medical Diagnostics...



STAMATIS ASTRA
CEO, Photoral

... a blue light that kills bad bacteria in your mouth ...


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April 30, 2013

SALMAN KHAN
Founder, Khan Academy
Author, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
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Moira speaks with SALMAN KHAN, the founder of Khan Academy, creator of a thousand YouTube videos all on calculus ...

 

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Dr. Gary Ruvkun
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

... 2012 Janssen (Yann-son) Award for Biomedical Research ...


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April 23, 2013

PHIL LAPSLEY
Author, Exploding the Phone The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
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Moira speaks with Phil Lapsley about the teenagers who hacked the phone company including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


JOHN CROWLEY
CEO, Amicus Therapeutics

... New Developments in Pompe (POM-PAY) Disease ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... voluntary crowdsourcing of medical data ...

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April 16, 2013

JOHN GEOGHEGAN
Host, PBS documentary Japanese Supersub
Author, Operation Storm: Japans Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II

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Moira speaks with John Geoghegan about Japans surprise underwater aircraft carrier ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


MARTIN ROSENDALE
CEO, Cytomedics

... treating chronic wounds, sports injuries and strokes ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the latest surrounding the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks ...

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April 9, 2013

PHIL STUTZ
Psychiatrist
BARRY MICHELS

Psychotherapist
Author, The Tools

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Moira speaks with Psychiatrist PHIL STUTZ and Psychotherapist BARRY MICHELS about the science of several simple tools proven effective in dealing with the challenges of everyday life ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JOSEPH KIM
President and CEO, Inovio Pharmaceuticals

... a new treatment for Candida ...


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April 2, 2013

MAHZARIN BANAJI
Professor, Harvard University
Author, Blind Spot Hidden Biases of Good People

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Moira speaks with Harvard's MAHZARIN BANAJI about the set of tests which can measure your hidden biases ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. TIM COOKE
CEO, NovaDigm Therapeutics

... a new treatment for Candida ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... unexpected algae blooms in Antarctica ...

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March 26, 2013

DOUG RUSHKOFF
Host, PBS Frontline documentary, Digital Nation
Author, Present Shock When Everything Happens Now

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Moira speaks with DOUG RUSHKOFF about the shock of living day to day in our highly-technological world ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


STEVE BURRILL
CEO, Burrill & Co.

... Part Two of Burrill's 2012 Biotech Industry Wrap-Up ...


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March 19, 2013

VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER
Oxford University Professor, Oxford Internet Institute
KENNETH CUKIER

Data Editor, The Economist
Authors, BIG DATA A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think

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Moira speaks with Oxford University's Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & The Economist's Kenneth Cukier about what's different about BIG DATA and what we can expect in the future ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. BRYAN FULLER
Founder & CEO, Dermamedics

... Relief from the burns of radiation therapy ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... science studies social media tools ...


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March 12, 2013

MATT RICHTEL
New York Times tech journalist
Pulitzer Prize winner
Author, The Cloud

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Moira speaks with New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL about the distractions of cell phones, the movement of all things to the Cloud, and other tech impacts, along with his latest Nat Idle thriller, The Cloud ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


STEVE BURRILL
CEO, Burrill & Co.

... 2012 Biotech Industry Wrap-Up ...


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March 5, 2013

DAVID MONTGOMERY
Professor of Geomorphology
University of Washington
Author, The Rocks Dont Lie: A Geologist investigates Noahs Flood

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Moira speaks with MacArthur Fellow David Montgomery on the beginnings of geology, and the centuries-old search for geological evidence of Noahs flood ...

 




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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... science can change us from optimistic to pessimistic and back again ...


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February 26, 2013

PO BRONSON
Author, Top Dog
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Moira speaks with PO BRONSON on the Science of Winning and Losing ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. MIKE CLAYMAN
President and CEO, Flexion Therapeutics

... a new approach to osteoarthritis ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... new bioethical challenges in professional sports ...


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February 19, 2013

GAVIN NEWSOM
Lieutenant Governor of California
Author, Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
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Moira speaks with former San Francisco mayor and California Lieutenant Governor GAVIN NEWSOM on reinventing government in the digital age ...

 




... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. CHUCK SHOEMAKER
Professor, Veterinary School, , Tufts University

... an anti-serum for bio-terrorism ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Shakespeare and DNA ...


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February 12, 2013



FRANCIS COLLINS
Director, National Institutes of Health


Moira speaks with NIH Director FRANCIS COLLINS about its 125 year history and momentum going into the future ...

 



DAVID WILLETTS
UK Minister of State
Universities and Science


Moira speaks with UK Minister of State for Universities and Science DAVID WILLETTS about the innovation partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States ...

 

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DR. ROBERT BRENNER
President and CEO, Allocure

... a new approach to Acute Kidney Injury ...




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February 5, 2013

DANIEL PINK

Author, To Sell is Human
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Moira speaks with DANIEL PINK about all the ways to need to "sell" in our lives - and the surprising science that says the least obvious people may make the best salesmen ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DON McCAFFREY
President and CEO, Resverlogix

... What's better than statins? repairing veins ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... David interviews Moira!! ...


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January 29, 2013

JARED DIAMOND

Pulitzer Prize Winner, Guns, Germs and Steel
Author, The World Until Yesterday

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Moira speaks with JARED DIAMOND about our world today - and what we might learn from traditional societies ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


SIMON WILKINSON
Director and CEO, Innate ImmunoTherapeutics

... a drug for later stage Multiple Sclerosis ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... technology will become your new personal physician ...


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January 22, 2013

RICK SMOLAN

Photojournalist and Author, The Human Face of BIG DATA
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Moira speaks with RICK SMOLAN about Big Data and where you find it in the world ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JEFF STEIN
President and CEO, Trius Therapeutics

... a new kind of antibiotic ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... how science can build a better you ...


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January 15, 2013

KEITH DEVLIN

NPR's Math Guy
Author, The Man of Numbers: Fibonaccis Arithmetic Revolution
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Moira speaks with KEITH DEVLIN takes us back to 16th century Italy, to Pisa and its Leaning Tower. We find out why we arent all using Roman numerals ...

 

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MICHAEL ZHANG
16-year-old high school junior Participant
2011 International BIO Gene-ius Challenge

... A better treatment for Multiple Sclerosis ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... David publicly releases his full genome ...


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January 8, 2013

VIJAY VAITHEESWARAN

China Business and Finance Editor, The Economist
Author, Need, Speed and Greed
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Moira speaks with VIJAY VAITHEESWARAN on How the New Rules of Innovation Can transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the Worlds Most Wicked Problems ...

 

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THE UK'S CLEAN AND COOL MISSION

ERIC BAKKAN
Vice Consul, UK Trade and Investment, San Francisco





SANDRA SASSOW
CEO & Co-Founder, Seab Energy
introducing the Muckbuster technology








CHRISTOPHE WILLIAMS
CEO & Co-Founder, Naked Energy
introducing tubular solar panels








Moira speaks with a delegation from the UK's Clean and Cool Mission ...

 


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January 1, 2013

DR. ERIC TOPOL
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Author, The Creative Destruction of Medicine
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Moira speaks with ERIC TOPOL about how the Digital Revolution will create better healthcare.

 

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JEN GORDON

Partner & Head of the Life Sciences Practice, Baker Botts

... intellectual property in the age of personalized medicine ...



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December 25, 2012

STEVEN NAIFEH
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jackson Pollack's biography
Author, Van Gogh
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Moira speaks with STEVEN NAIFEH about the technology of the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh, and how technology played an essential role in bring his biography together.

 

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DAVID HAUSSLER

UC Santa Cruz Professor

... the new Cancer Genome Hub - winning the fight against cancer has moved from the microscope to the computer ...



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December 18, 2012

WADE DAVIS
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Anthropologist
Author, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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Moira speaks with WADE DAVIS about the historical context of the scaling of Everest, reflecting on the technology of the era.

 

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LOUIS BRETON

President & CEO, Calimmune

... a different approach for treating HIV ...



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December 11, 2012

PURDUE SCIENCE JOURNALISM LAUREATES
CLIVE COOKSON
Science Editor, Financial Times of London
NUALA MORAN
Managing Editor, Science|Business
SANDRA AAMODT
Editor-in-Chief, BeingHuman.org
JOAN LEACH
Convener, Science Communications Program
University of Queensland
JOHN MORROW
Dr. John Biotech Blog
Contributor, Genetic Engineering News
Co-moderated by DAVID EWING DUNCAN, chief correspondent for BioTech Nation.
The Science Journalism Laureates convening at Purdue University - Laureates discuss the current state and future prospects of science journalism, including their annual reading of "100 Words".

 

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December 4, 2012

GUY KAWASAKI
Former Apply Evangelist and Venture Capitalist
Author, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book
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Moira speaks with GUY KAWASAKI about how to publish a book TODAY - you'll find the answers and ideas surprising ...

 

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PETER WONG

COO, TruTag Technologies

... what you eat all the time and isn't organic -- it's great to fight counterfeiting ...



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November 27, 2012

RAY KURZWEIL
National Medal of Technology winner
Author, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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Moira speaks with RAY KURZWEIL about how the mind is structured inside the brain - and how much room you have, now that there is the Internet ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


MIKE MARTINO

President & CEO, Ambit Biosciences

... progress with Acute Myeloid Leukemia ...



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November 20, 2012

GEORGE CHURCH
Harvard Medical School Genetics Professor
Author, Regenesis
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Moira speaks with Harvard Medical School Genetics professor GEORGE CHURCH about how Synthetic Biology may reinvent every living thing ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


COLIN HILL

Chairman & CEO, GNS Healthcare

... big yields from the data exhaust of the healthcare system ...



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November 13, 2012

STEVEN JOHNSON
Author, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
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Moira speaks with STEVEN JOHNSON and his perspectives on our collective future ...

 

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DR. HARVEY RUBIN
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Computer Science
Director, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR)
University of Pennsylvania
Founder, Energize the Chain

... bringing vaccines to the most remote locations ...



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November 6, 2012

DAVID QUAMMEN
2012 winner, Stephen Jay Gould prize
Author, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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Moira speaks with DAVID QUAMMEN about how insidious infections cross from animals to humans ...

 

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DR. TILLMAN GERNGROSS
Professor, Dartmouth College
CEO and Co-Founder, Adimab;

... computers, nano-flourescence and yeast fight cancer ...



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October 30, 2012

SETH HOROWITZ
Brown University neuroscientist
Author, How Hearing Shapes Our Minds
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Moira speaks with Brown University neuroscientist SETH HOROWITZ about the acoustic wonders of dolphins, whales and clicking shrimp its noisy down there ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. MICHAEL LEEK
Commercial Operations Director, Pharmacells;

... deep-freeze your own adult stem cells ...



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October 23, 2012

STEVEN PINKER
Harvard University Professor, Psychology
Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Moira speaks with Harvard psychology professor STEVEN PINKER tells us about how humans are behaving better ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DAN STINCHCOMB
Envirogen

... the fight against Dengue Fever ...



DR OLIVER FETZER
Cerulean Pharma

... a nano-particle approach to treating lung cancer ...


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October 16, 2012

SALMAN KHAN
Founder, Khan Academy
Author, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
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Moira speaks with SALMAN KHAN, the founder of Khan Academy, creator of a thousand YouTube videos all on calculus ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


Dr. Gary Ruvkun
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

... 2012 Janssen (Yann-son) Award for Biomedical Research ...


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October 9, 2012

TINA SEELIG
Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Author, InGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
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Moira speaks with TINA SEELIG about how to get creative and stay creative ...

 

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DR. JOE MILETICH
Senior Vice President, R&D, Amgen

... generics drugs vs. Bio-similars ...


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October 2, 2012

MARC PRENSKY
Author, Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom
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Moira speaks with MARC PRENSKY about the impact all this technology has on our brains - not surprising, the news is both good and not so good ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JEFF IVES
CEO,
JEFF JONKER
Chief Business Officer, Satori Pharmaceuticals

... progress in Alzheimers ...



DR. ROBERT FLOYD
Head, Experimental Therapeutics and Translational Research Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

... research on Glioblastoma ...


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September 25, 2012

GEOFF NUNBERG
Fresh Air commentator and linguist
Emeritus Chair, Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary
Author, Ascent of the A-Word
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Moira speaks with GEOFF NUNBERG about his new book on a term brought into being by the GIs of World War II ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. RANDALL CARPENTER
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Seaside Therapeutics

... a genetic diagnosis for autism and options for therapy ...


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September 18, 2012

SOREN KAPLAN
Author, Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
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Moira speaks with SOREN KAPLAN about the power of surprise - for individuals as well as organizations ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


GARY RABIN
Chairman and CEO, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT)

... stem cell therapy for macular degeneration ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... science watches rhesus monkeys for decades ...


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September 11, 2012

WADE DAVIS
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence & Anthropologist
Author, Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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Moira speaks with WADE DAVIS about George Mallory and the impact that World War I had on the conquest of Everest...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


LOUIS BRETON
CEO, Calimmune

... a different approach for treating HIV ...


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September 4, 2012

SCOTT SIGLER
Author of the Infectious series
Author, Nocturnal
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Moira speaks with that prolific writer of edgy thrillers, SCOTT SIGLER, as well as his series featuring the Galactic Football League ...

 

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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... his new TED book When Im 164: The New Science of Anti-Aging and What Happens if it Succeeds ...


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August 28, 2012

BILL WASIK
Wired Editor
MONICA MURPHY
Veterinarian
Co-Authors, Rabid: A Cultural History of the Worlds Most Diabolical Virus
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Moira speaks with Wired Editor BILL WASIK and Veterinarian MONICA MURPHY discuss the history and future of rabies ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. JONATHAN ALLIS
General Manager, Positron Emission Tomography GE Medical Diagnostics

... PET scanning vs. MRI scanning Alzheimers ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... brain scans could replace the IQ test ...


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August 21, 2012

FRAN HAWTHORNE
Journalist & Editor
Author, Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
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Moira speaks with FRAN HAWTHORNE about Ethical Chic a review of products seen by consumers as most ethical ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


BOB DOMAN
President and CEO, Dusa Pharmaceuticals

... earlier treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... new theory links size of our brains with our hunter ancestors ...


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August 14, 2012

DR. ROBERT McLAY
Author, At War with PTSD: Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality
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Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT McLAY about using virtual reality to help returning vets who suffer from PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


MARTIN McGLYNN
President and CEO
Stem Cells, Inc.

... use of stem cells to treat disease, from spinal cord injury and age-related macular degeneration to a rare pediatric disorder ...


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August 7, 2012

PHIL STUTZ
Psychiatrist
BARRY MICHELS
Psychotherapist
Co-Authors, The Tools
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Moira speaks with PHIL STUTZ and BARRY MICHELS about their book: The Tools. They dont care why you act the way you do, they just want to enable you to change to the new behaviors you seek ...

 

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DR. JOSEPH KIM
President and CEO
Inovio Pharmaceuticals

... Engineering new vaccines by typing DNA sequences into a computer ...


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July 31, 2012

ED HUMES
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Author, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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Moira speaks with ED HUMES about the mountain of garbage in Los Angeles that is the nation's largest active landfill - it used to be a canyon ...

 

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DR. JOHN LATHAM
Chief Scientific Officer and Head, R&D
Alder Biopharmaceuticals

... Fighting migraines one month at a time ...


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July 24, 2012

DR. BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ
Cardiology Professor
UCLA medical school
Author, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing
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Moira speaks with UCLA's DR. BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ about her experience in bringing veterinary medicine to traditional healthcare ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


DR. DAN STINCHCOMB
CEO, Inviragen

... Vaccines for Dengue Fever and other neglected diseases ...



DAVID STEINMILLER
COO, Opko Diagnostics

... On-the-spot diagnostics responding to the World Health Organization initiative ...


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July 17, 2012

DR. LARRY ROSEN
Research Psychologist
Author, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us
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Moira speaks with DR. LARRY ROSEN about how our technology drives us - and what science has to say about it ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:



TERRY HISEY
Vice Chairman and Life sciences leader
Deloitte







MATTHEW HUDES
US Managing Principle for Biotechnology
Deloitte



... comparative effectiveness in biotech and the meaning of the term: Bio-Pharma ...


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July 10, 2012

From BIO 2012 in Boston ...



JIM GREENWOOD
President, the Biotechnology Industry Organization










DR. MARGARET FOTI
CEO, American Association for Cancer Research
2012 Bio-Humanitarian Award




 

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ART BONI
Thorne Professor of Entrepreneurship
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie-Mellon University







STEVE SAMMUT
Senior Fellow Healthcare Management
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania


Co-Founders, BIO Entrepreneurship Boot Camp






MIKE MAY

Editorial Director, Scientific American Worldview
YALI FRIEDMAN
Editor, The Worldview Scorecard
Scientific American Worldview








JONATHAN DE PASS
CEO, Evaluate Pharma













Moira speaks with leaders at the international BIO conference 2012 in Boston. They discuss the landscape of biotechnology globally, the impact of biotech on cancer research, and MBA-in-a-day - OK, 2 days ....

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July 3, 2012

BOB SUTTON
Author, Good Boss, Bad Boss How to Be the Best and learn from the Worst
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Moira speaks with BOB SUTTON about what science tells us about good bosses and bad ones ...

 

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DR TIM RODELL
President and CEO, GlobeImmune

... bakers yeast figures into treating Hepatitis C ...


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June 26, 2012

JONATHAN KOOMEY
Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Author, Cold Cash, Cool Climate
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Moira speaks with JONATHAN KOOMEY - he tells us that the climate problem is big, is urgent, and is misunderstood. ...

 

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RICK ALVAREZ
Vice President of Operations and Research
Selexys Pharmaceuticals

... Sickle Cell Anemia ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... the state of DNA predicting our future health ...


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June 19, 2012

TOM TALAVAGE
Purdue University professor
Purdue Neurotrauma Group
Science measures injury on the high school football team

Moira speaks with Purdue University professor TOM TALAVAGE. His group has studied the brains of their local high school football team, and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated ...

 

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On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... The MacArthur Awards and biotech ...


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June 12, 2012

DR. SANDRA AAMODT
Former editor-in-chief, Nature Neuroscience
Author, Welcome to Your Childs Brain
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Moira speaks with DR. SANDRA AAMODT about how childrens brains grow all the way through college and beyond ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:



DR BENOIT DUBUIS
President, BioAlps

... the Lake Geneva Life Science Cluster ...



On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Chinas big new biotech initiative ...


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June 5, 2012



Prof Dr. RETO BRUN
Head, Parasite Chemotherapy







Prof Dr. GERD PLUSCHKE
Head, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology


Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteBasel, Switzerland


Moira speaks with scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute - there are 250 million people in the world suffering from malaria ...

 

 

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ALEX FILZ
Head, Communications
DSM Nutritional Products


Moira speaks with the worlds leading supplier of vitamins, and we hear about their unusual humanitarian effort called Sight and Life ...




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May 29, 2012



KEITH ROCKWELL
Spokesman, World Trade Organization


Moira speaks with KEITH ROCKWELL about how the WTO came into being, and such challenges as the protests at the WTO meeting in Seattle ...

 

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ANTONY TAUBMAN
Director, Intellectual Property Division
World Trade Organization


Moira speaks with ANTONY TAUBMAN about the issues of getting essential medicines to all humans versus the legal guarantees of drugs patents....

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May 22, 2012

HOWARD RHEINGOLD
Author, NetSmart: How to Thrive Online
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Moira speaks with HOWARD RHEINGOLD about how to be smart about the Internet, now that we have some experience ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


KEITH MURPHY
CEO, Organovo

... building human blood vessels actually printing them out ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... reports on TedMed ...



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May 15, 2012

DAN ROAM
Founder, The Napkin Academy
Author, Blah, Blah, Blah: What to do when words dont work
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Moira speaks with DAN ROAM about picturing ideas ... instead of talking about them or writing words, words, words ...

 

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... and on BioTech Nation:


KEITH KATKIN
President & CEO, Avanir Pharmaceuticals

... emergent treatment for Pseudobulbar Affect affecting many stroke victims ...


On BioIssue of the Week:

with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN

... Are Humans still evolving? ...



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May 8, 2012

DAVA SOBEL

Author, A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos