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
Nov 19
From Hindsight Bias to Machine Bias: Dr. Laura Zwaan on Learning from Mistakes
<p>As a cognitive psychologist, <a href='https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bisywfhwes5yiv7i/Biography_Laura_Zwaan.pdf'>Dr. Laura Zwaan</a> studies how humans make—and learn from—mistakes. In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, she brings that lens to AI, showing how machines inhe ... Show More
38m 9s
Oct 15
Medicine, Machines, and Magic: Dr. Jonathan Chen on Medical AI
<p>In this episode, <a href='https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rdb6wgcbxg3je2ed/Jonathan_Chen_Bio.docx'>Dr. Jonathan Chen</a> joins the hosts to discuss his path from teenage programmer to Stanford physician-informatician and why machine learning has both thrilled and unnerved him. ... Show More
48m 17s
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