Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Herbert Hauptman, Nobel Laureate and mathematician, and asks how he and Dr. Jerome Karle opened a new era in research using data from crystallized material research.
Deepak Singh is one of a new breed of life scientists who are bringing Web 2.0 methods to the practice of science. He co-founded BioScreencast.com, a site where scientists share screencasts that illustrate how they use bioinformatics software tools.
There appear to be a 170 million people in the world with Hepatitis C, and most people don't know they have it. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Spencer, from Biolex Therapeutics, and asks him how so many people could have Hepatitis C and not even know it.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Scott Sigler, who talks about his bioterror thriller "Infected." While it's based on the premise of a biological weapon on the loose, he's actually a modern day Charles Dickens.
The incidence of cancer today is vastly greater than a hundred years ago. To find out why, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Devra Davis, of the Center for Environmental Oncology, and author of "The Secret History of the War on Cancer."
Scientific advances have opened previously unimaginable possibilities in the realm of human reproduction. Determining the sex of an early-stage embryo, or shifting the pre-conception arrangement of chromosomes in favor of certain outcomes, further opens the door to sex selection. By various means, it is becoming feasible to genetically engineer a child with specific qualities. In this audio lecture, Michael J. Sandel and William Haseltine debate the moral and ethical implications of such actions.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Karen Boezi, partner at Thomas McNerney & Partners, about what makes neurotech such an attractive investment.
In the United States, at least 60% of the population wears corrective lenses. Worldwide, in contrast, only 5% of the population does. Such statistics have led Josh Silver, Oxford atomic physicist, to conclude that more than half the world needs vision correction but doesn't have access to it. In this audio lecture, host of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, Silver shares how he decided to "do something useful for the world" by creating specialized, liquid-filled corrective lenses that are now worn by some 26,000 people in developing countries.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Terry Collins about endocrine disruptors, and a new technique used to take minute traces of these materials out of our drinking water.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Avid Biotics' CEO Dave Martin, one of the many people looking to find solutions to rapidly rising staph infections.
