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Episode 17-13 Health Tech, the NFL, Major League Baseball & Neuroscience Mar 31, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, a Special Edition of Tech Nation Health, where the NFL and Major League Baseball both figure in. First up is Jim Joyce, CEO of Aethlon Medical and Executive Chairman of Exosome Sciences. Its blood test appears to identify CTE – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy – in retired NFL players. Then Right Eye returns with improvements to its eye tracking diagnostics for medical conditions, and a new project with professional sports. Barbara Barclay is the President of Right Eye, and Dr. Melissa Hunfalvay is its Chief Scientific Officer. Then, Tech Nation Health’s chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about disruption in medical care, all brought about by emerging technology.

Episode 17-12 If Neuroscience gets better, do we? Mar 22, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack with “The Net and the Butterfly – The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking” – their exercises all source from breakthroughs in neuroscience. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the future of Neuroscience and Neuromedicine, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. Asha Das from Tocagen talks about their approach to treating brain tumors –it starts with a virus.

Episode 17-11 Health Claims – Can tech help? Mar 15, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s the second of a two-part series on Digital Health. On this show, Moira speaks with DR. RAJAIE BATNIJI, the Co-Founder & Chief Health Officer of Collective Health. It all started with a nightmare in filing health claims.
Then on BioTech Nation, RIF PAMUKCHU, the CEO of RxMP Therapeutics. It’s about the technology of stopping blood loss.

Episode 17-10 Technology invents Play invents more Technology Mar 07, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Steven Johnson, the Author, “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.

Episode 17-09 The Science of Popularity Mar 01, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DEREK THOMPSON, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, about his book “Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of aging, longevity and technology in the near and more distant future, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.

Episode 17-08 The science of Why Time Flies Feb 22, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ALAN BURDICK, former senior editor at The New Yorker and National Book Award finalist, about his latest book: “Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Ken Horne, the CEO of SymicBio describes their efforts to better the long term results of angioplasty and a clinical trial for osteoarthritis in the knee. We’ll also hear from our chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT on the future of medical education. It’s not just doctors and nurses, but it’s also changing for everyday people.

Episode 17-07 The Science of Misinformation – Digital Lies? Feb 15, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, and author of “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital. It’s WENDE HUTTON, NINA KJELLSON and JULIE PAPANEK, all from Canaan Partners.

Episode 17-06 The End of Sex – Sort of Feb 08, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor HANK GREELEY about “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction”. Then on BioTech Nation, the winner of BIO’s Future Maker 2016 Award - Dr. HOWARD JACOBS from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.

Episode 17-05 In-Home Security … no gadgets – no arming when you leave Jan 31, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Taj Manku, the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada. AuraHome enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows – no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She talks about information available worldwide. Then chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about 3-D printing in medicine.

Episode 17-04 The latest from CES 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada Jan 25, 2017

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jim Barry from the Consumer Technology Association about the latest tech from CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Also, Andrew Thomas, the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer for SkyBell, a video doorbell which you monitor from anywhere. He’ll moved from a person dissatisfied with his work life to becoming an entrepreneur.

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