In this episode, vanguard geneticist Dr. George Church recounts his storied career from his early fascination with computers and science to his pioneering work in genomics and synthetic biology. Dr. Church developed innovative DNA sequencing methods that enabled the first sequencing of the human genome. He was also instrumental in developing CRISPR gene edit ... Show More
Mar 18
AI’s Next Frontier with Dr. Kyunghyun Cho
Dr. Kyunghyun Cho is a leading AI researcher best known for co-authoring a landmark 2014 paper that introduced neural machine translation. In this episode, he discusses his wide-ranging career spanning fundamental AI research, co-founding Prescient Design (acquired by Genentech), ... Show More
1h 7m
Feb 18
Epic’s Approach to AI with Seth Hain
Clinical AI only helps patients if clinicians and health systems trust it. Seth Hain describes how Epic is building foundation models that respect institutional autonomy, minimize burden, and prioritize safety. He discusses scaling laws in structured medical data, cautious deploy ... Show More
53m 1s
Jan 21
Bridging AI and Biology to Tackle Medicine’s Hardest Problems with Dr. Marinka Zitnik
For Dr. Marinka Zitnik, the promise of AI in medicine begins with acknowledging the scale of the problem. Most patients with rare diseases have no approved treatments, and traditional drug development timelines make progress painfully slow. In this conversation, she describes how ... Show More
54m 27s
Oct 2023
Evolving Biotechnologies with Olga Troyanskaya
<p>Olga Troyanskaya, a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton and Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.</p><p>Together, they talked about Olga's ba ... Show More
23m 44s
Aug 2022
How Reprogramming Our Genes Can Extend Our Lives with George Church
This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker. All living things are programmed with a certain lifespan, which can be dramatically different from species to species. Humans now, in general, live twice as long as our ancestors, thanks to environmenta ... Show More
1h 14m
Apr 2024
EP 132: From mammoths to genome editing, trailblazing genetics with Dr. George Church
In this episode, we are excited to welcome George Church, Professor at Harvard Medical School and MIT, and Co-founder of Eugit Therapeutics, Colossal Biosciences, Arrived AI, and eGenesis. He is also the Director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world's only open-access information hu ... Show More
47m 41s
Dec 2021
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares
CRISPR is the latest and most powerful technique for changing the genetic code of living things. This method of gene editing is already showing great promise in treating people with gene-based diseases, from sickle cell disease to cancer. However, in 2018 the use of CRISPR to edi ... Show More
27m 32s
May 2019
EP 1: Introducing...The Genetics Podcast!
Welcome to The Genetics Podcast!
Since 2019, we've been interviewing researchers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and experts in the field of genetics, including leaders in the field like Dr Eric Topol, Dr Daphne Koller, Dr Robert Green, Sir Rory Collins. Some of the topics that ... Show More
2m 23s
May 2023
#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate heredity, the genius of Gregor Mendel, the ethics of altering our genes, the future of genetic medicine, patent issues in genetic research, and other topics. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a ... Show More
33m 16s