Matice Founder Jessica Whited on Harnessing Regenerative Species for Medical Breakthroughs

Mar 12

Building AI Factories: How Red Hat and NVIDIA Turn Enterprise Data Into Intelligence - Ep. 293

Enterprises are moving from AI pilots to full‑scale AI factories that turn data into trusted digital intelligence. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and NVIDIA’s Justin Boitano unpack the "five‑layer cake" AI factory stack, from accelerated hardware and hybrid cloud infrastructure to mode ... Show More

38m 43s

Mar 4

Powering the AI Inference Wave with EPRI's Ben Sooter - Ep. 292

AI is reshaping electricity demand. What does increased demand, and the shape of that demand, mean for the electric grid? Ben Sooter, Director of R&D at EPRI joins the podcast to explain why most of an AI model’s lifetime energy use comes from inference rather than training, and ... Show More

32m 20s

Feb 27

AI Agents and the Future of Global Trade with Alibaba’s Kuo Zhang - Ep. 291

Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang discusses how AI agents like Accio are reshaping global trade. He shares insights on automating complex B2B sourcing, compressing weeks of work into minutes, lowering barriers for solo entrepreneurs and SMEs, and what AI-native commerce will mean f ... Show More

33m 13s

Oct 2021

Wetlands under attack

Since its introduction four decades ago, Spartina alterniflora, a salt-water cordgrass from the USA, has been spreading along China’s coasts. Today, it covers nearly half of the country’s salt marshes. As the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 kicks off in China, we look at how th ... Show More

58m 50s

Jun 2023

AI and human extinction

In the headlines this week eminent tech experts and public figures signed an open letter that read “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”One of the signatories was Geoffrey Hi ... Show More

27m 44s

Mar 2023

How to build a virus-proof cell

00:47 An edited genetic code that prevents viral infectionResearchers have engineered bacteria with synthetic genomes to be immune to viral infection. The team streamlined the bacteria’s genetic code, and re-engineered the protein-producing machinery to insert the wrong amino aci ... Show More

31m 38s

Feb 2023

CRISPR & bioethics

In the decade since the genome editing capabilities of CRISPR-Cas9 emerged, research into novel medicines has boomed – but alongside progress comes new ethical considerations. Controversy erupted in 2018, when Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the first babies with edited geno ... Show More

55m 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

Oct 2023

Machines & Genes: The Future of AI in Biology with Dr. George Church

<p>In this episode, vanguard geneticist <a href='https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/core-faculty/george-church/'>Dr. George Church</a> recounts his storied career from his early fascination with computers and science to his pioneering work in genomics and synthetic biology. Dr. Church ... Show More

49m 48s

Apr 2023

The resurrection quest

‘Can we bring back extinct species?’ wonders listener Mikko Campbell. Well, Professor Fry is pretty excited by the prospect of woolly mammoths roaming the Siberian tundra once more. And everyone is impressed with the science that might make it happen. But Dr Rutherford comes out ... Show More

27m 19s

Apr 2023

Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance Human Brains | Dr. Matthew MacDougall

In this episode, my guest is Matthew MacDougall, MD, the head neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Dr. MacDougall trained at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University School of Medicine and is a world expert in brain stimulation, repair and augmentation. He explains N ... Show More

1h 57m

Jan 2024

Stars, Cells, and God | Pig Organs in Humans and Will AI Do Science?

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss ground-breaking scientific discoveries that have theological and philosophical implications, including for the evidence of God’s existence. Pig Organs in Humans Recently, research teams from NYU Langone Health, the Univer ... Show More

49m 23s

Matice Founder Jessica Whited on Harness...