Biology isn’t just a high school class anymore. A podcast about how biology and technology are shaping our future.
Mar 2
Rebuilding Behavioral Health’s Operating System with AI
a16z Partners Daisy Wolf and Eva Steinman talk with Zach Cohen and Raymond Wang, cofounders of Ease Health, a company building an AI operating system for behavioral health that combines CRM, EHR, and revenue cycle management into a single platform. They discuss why behavioral hea ... Show More
36m 31s
Feb 24
AI in Healthcare: The Leapfrog Opportunity
At the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit 2025, Julie Yoo, General Partner at a16z Bio + Health, makes the case that healthcare is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI more than any other industry. She argues that healthcare's historical underinvestment in technology is now ... Show More
25m 59s
Feb 20
Ambience CEO Nikhil Buduma on AI in Clinical Workflows
a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They cover the early days of deep learning, why Ambience started by running a medical practice before building a platform compa ... Show More
49m 10s
Apr 2024
Bill Anderson: Using AI to combat hunger
<p>Bayer CEO Bill Anderson considers himself a scientist at heart, a chemical engineer by training, and a lifelong student of biotechnology. Now at the helm of a 160-year-old German pharmaceutical and agriculture company, he's employing science and technology with a bold mission ... Show More
32m 33s
Nov 2023
The Life Scientific: Alex Antonelli
With the world's biodiversity being lost at an alarming rate, Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has made it his life's mission to protect it. He is a bio-geographer revealing how changes to the Earth's landscape, such as the formation of ... Show More
27m 17s
Jul 2018
a16z Podcast: The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
<p>with Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), David Reich, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread)</p>
<p>Trying to reconstruct the deep past of ancient humans out of present-day people has until now been like trying to reconstruct a bomb explosion in a room from bits of shrapnel, says David ... Show More
31m 38s
Nov 2017
Interstellar visitor, Svante Paabo, Synthetic biology, Plight of the Axolotl
On 19th October, a mysterious object sped through our solar system. It was first spotted by astronomers with a telescope in Hawaii. Its trajectory and speed told of its interstellar origins. It is the first body to be detected from outside our solar system. Scientists are now pub ... Show More
34m 23s
Jan 2019
a16z Podcast: The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
<p>with Vas Narasimhan (@vasnarasimhan), Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)</p><p>On average, only 1 out of 20 medicines works when we actually bring them into the human body, and these rates of success haven't moved much in the ph ... Show More
59m 2s
<p>Welcome to <a href="https://a16z.com/2020/09/22/biology-aging/" target="_blank">the first episode of Bio Eats World</a>, a brand <a href="https://a16z.com/bio-eats-world-podcast/" target="_blank">new podcast</a> all about how biology <i>is</i> technology. Bio is breaking out o ... Show More