On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ESPN investigative journalist Mark Fainaru-Wada , the author of League of Denial … The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary. Then on BioTech Nation, progress for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe with Chris Garabedian, the CEO of Surepta Therapeutics. And on BiosIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's possible to beam me up, Scotty – only this time it’s your DNA.
Dec 09, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with RUTH DEFRIES , a MacArthur Winner and author of “The Big Ratchet – How Humanity Survives in the Face of Natural Crisis, a biography of an ingenious species”. Then on BioTech Nation, moving breakthrough science to viable medicines in many fields from colorectal cancer to antibiotics resistance. Moira speaks with Dr. Tom Gibbs, Director of DebioPharm from Lausanne, Switzerland. And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, new data just in - the...
Dec 03, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist CHRISTINE KENNEALLY about “The Invisible History of the Human Race – How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.” Then on BioTech Nation, an important breakthrough in studying human disease – DR. BRIAN WAMHOFF, a co-founder and head of R&D at Hemoshear, tells us about their technology which enables the study of humans never before possible. Then on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, David gives us the new “numb...
Nov 26, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON, the author of “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” It took the hands of many to create all the technology we use every day. Then on BioTech Nation, Carnegie-Mellon’s ART BONI and Wharton’s STEVE SAMMUT talk about the annual Bioentrepreneurship Boot Camp. And for the crucial start-up funding necessary to all bioenterprise, we hear from DR. JAY LICHTER , a Venture Partner at Avalo...
Nov 21, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former Harvard Business Review Executive Editor NICHOLAS CARR, the author of “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us”, about the effect of technology all around us. Then on BioTech Nation, an approach to screen for a wide host of diseases including cancer and diabetes, 5 years or more before symptoms appear. And improved cancer treatments, all because we can read the cancer’s DNA. Guests are DR. ARIF ANWAR, the Executive Director of Sengenics, and DR. CHU...
Nov 13, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of esteemed professors, who will explain each of the 2014 Nobel prizes, and why they are important. Panel Convener LUDWIG CHINCARINI Professor, Finance and Economics, University of San Francisco For the prize in LITERATURE GENARO PADILLA Professor, English, UC Berkeley For the prize in PEACE STEPHEN ZUNES Professor, Politics, University of San Francisco For the ECONOMICS prize JOE FARRELL Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley For two prizes - in ...
Nov 05, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ALIX CHRISTIE about GUTENBERG'S APPRENTICE– like all technology, it turns out it was a team effort. Then on BioTech Nation, a virus hunter and a drug hunter. STAN ERCK, CEO of NovaVax, tells us how they create new vaccines to protect against RSV in very young children, and we speak with DR. PEARL HUANG about DISCOVERY PARTNERSHIPS (DPAc) AT GLAXOSMITHKLINE and how they seek out and support promising of university research scientists in the hunt for n...
Oct 29, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ADAM TANNER, a fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the author of “What Stays in Vegas – The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It.” Then on BioTech Nation, TODD SKRINAR , Principal for Life Sciences Advisory and Leader for Big Data Advanced Analytics at ERNST and YOUNG. All those clinical trials needed to prove a drug is safe? Big data and getting bigger....
Oct 23, 2014•1 hr 5 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, and a professor at psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center. He’s written “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” Then on BioTech Nation, initial attempts at stem cell treatments for such different conditions as spinal cord injury, PMD and age-related macular degeneration begin to show promise.
Oct 15, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, what can we learn about being human from dating websites. Moira speaks with CHRISTIAN RUDDER, the president of OkCupid where he leads data analytics. He’s written DATACLYSM: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking). Then on BioTech Nation, quickly detecting diseases with small mobile devices. We talk to DR. ANITA GOEL, the CEO of NanoBioSym and winner of the 2013 Nokia Sensing X-Prize, talks about their device: GeneRadar. And RICHARD POPS, the CEO of Alkermes. He t...
Oct 08, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with FRITJOF CAPRA. He spent 10 years studying the original notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – and yes, there's genius there … Then on BioTech Nation, we talk with STEPHEN HURST, the Chairman and CEO of Savant HWP about a new view of addiction – and new developments for all addictions.
Oct 01, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor DAN JURAFSKY tells us about “The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu.” Over the centuries and around the globe, the food we eat today started their journeys long ago and far away. Then on BioTech Nation, LEE JONES, the CEO of Rebiotix tells us and their approach to treating severe bacterial infections called c. difficile, and Andrew Strong, the CEO of Kalon Biotherapeutics, talks about their U.S. government to provide massi...
Sep 24, 2014•59 min
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist MICHAEL HARRIS about how he opted out of digital technology for a month – he tells us it’s lonely, but rewarding. Then on BioTech Nation, Virginia Governor TERRY McAULIFFE tells us that Virginia isn’t just for lovers. Virginia also means biotech, and also, JIM GREENWOOD, the president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. He interviewed both Richard Branson and Hillary Clinton on their relation to biotech.
Sep 17, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with McGill professor and behavioral neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.” Our brains need to operate differently today than they ever did before. Then on BioTech Nation, “The most important genome in your body may not be your own.” So says MOHAN IYER, the Chief Business Officer of Second Genome. We talk about our microbiomes – the trillions of microbes which populate our bodies, as...
Sep 11, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GEOFF MOORE about what happens to a hot tech companies that get a lot of interest early … and then never make it. Then on BioTech Nation, ANNE WOJCICKI , the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, where there’s plenty new with a grant from the National Institutes of Health and a new partnership with Pfizer.
Sep 02, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dartmouth professor MARCELLO 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 can’t tell us. Then on Biotech Nation, it’s DR. KATE RITTENHOUSE-OLSON, the President of For-Robin. The focus is triple negative breast cancer, but their work may have found a way to stop metastasis.
Sep 02, 2014•1 hr
On this week’s Tech Nation, 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. Then on BioTech Nation, an approach to treating the rejection of organ transplants in their earliest stage – if you’ve had an organ transplant, remember … your donor organ’s DNA is different from your own.
Sep 02, 2014•1 hr
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with FRANCIS MAUDE, the UK's Minister for the Cabinet Office, about digital government, it's called "digital by default". Then on BioTech Nation, DR. JENNIFER MILLER from Bioethics International talks about the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to provide the clinical trials data behind their approved drugs.
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors from the University of San Francisco and it's "Nobel Prizes Explained."
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ANNALEE NEWITZ looks at the past, present and possible future of mass extinctions. Then on BioTech Nation we talk about stroke and the current standard of care, something new on the horizon, and how it works.
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize. Then on BioTech Nation, how decoding the human genome affects the durgs of our future, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's Google vs. Death.
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere in our lives. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DAVID MARTIN from AvidBiotics talks about the CDC's new report on antibiotic resistance.
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JARED DIAMOND about The World Until Yesterday: What We Can Learn from Traditional Societies Then on BioTech Nation, a drug for later stage Multiple Sclerosis and on BioIssue of the Week, technology becomes your new personal physician.
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer for the United States. He's here today with Innovative State , How New Technologies Can Transform Government And on BioTech Nation, the new vaccines and how we get them to everyone young, old, rich and poor, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, the top innovations of 2013 from the Cleveland Clinic.
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KENNETH CUKIER, the Data Editor at The Economist. He tells us about Learning with Big Data and The Future of Education Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on a cocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyone in the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Regis Kelly from the University of California in San Francisco for Quantitative Biosciences, which nutures disruptive technology. And on BioTech Nation, one cancer pharmaceuticals company focused on disruptive science.
Aug 20, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the National Football League turns to science to work on head trauma. I speak with three scientists collaborating on a concussion imaging study funded by the General Electric/NFL Head Health Challenge. What data do they collect? What are they looking at? And what are they looking for. Gunnar Carlsson, Pek Lum and Adam Ferguson. Dr. Carlsson is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, and co-founder of the data analytics firm Ayasdi, where D...
Aug 19, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Rogerio Ribeiro from global pharmaceutical firm GSK. He'll tell us and how genetics and medical needs differ globally, one size does not fit all. And we go to Russia to visit a new Biomedical Cluster. Then on BioTech Nation, a new report on India and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, the surprising role of microbes in your mouth.
Aug 19, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee, and her book "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto". Then on BioTech Nation, DR. JOHN BEADLE from PsiOxus Therapeutics in Oxford on their progress in colorectal and ovarian cancers - they were actually able to take pictures.
Aug 19, 2014•1 hr
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ED CATMULL, the President of Pixar Animation. He's talking about creativity, but also creativity when your 80% done, they lost both the main files and the back-up files to Toy Story. Then on BioTech Nation, a new approach to recovery from hip fracture from both biotech-supported advanced nutrition and what it takes to build muscles.
Aug 19, 2014•1 hr
