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Episode 15-27 Imagination, Creativity and Innovation Jul 08, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford’s DR. TINA SEELIG about her book “INSIGHT OUTSIGHT OUT: Get Ideas Out of your Head and into the World.” We'll find out the difference between imagination, creativity, and innovation.
Then on BioTech Nation, it’s all about “wearables” – personal technology we can strap on our wrists, or our bodies that can help you and your doctor monitor your health. DR. DANIEL KRAFT is the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University and the Founder of Exponential Medicine. We'll hear what's coming and what it means for all of us.

Episode 15-26 The Decoded Company Jul 04, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
LEEROM SEGAL, President & CEO, Klick Health and the author of “The Decoded Company.” With all the information everyone access to and generates all the time, it turns out that the ecosystem of a company is more important than its organization chart.
Then on BioTech Nation, we discuss decoding a whole human genome, and doing it fast with PIETER VAN ROOYEN, President & CEO of Edico Genome.
Then we'll discuss the role of voluntary patient registries to better treat long term chronic disease, such as heart disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis with DR. STEFAN LARSSON, Partner, Boston Consulting Group, Stockholm and Dr. DR. SOFIA ERNESTAM, Senior Physician in Rheumatology, Karolinska Institute

Episode 15-25 Is Everyone an Engineer? Jun 24, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAN MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering. They talk about the difference between technology and engineering.
Then on BioTech Nation, SIR JOHN CHISHOLM, head of Genomics England and the 100,000 Genomes Project

Episode 15-24 High Tech Chasms and 23andMe Jun 17, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GEOFF MOORE, Strategy Consultant
Author, “CROSSING THE CHASM: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, third edition” about what happens to a hot tech companies that get a lot of interest early … and then never make it.
Then on BioTech Nation, ANNE WOJCICKI, the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. From DNA analysis and a new grant from the National Institutes of Health to a new partnership with Pfizer on Crohn's Disease, there's more to 23andMe than meets the eye.

Episode 15-23 Recovering from Personal Trauma Jun 10, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, and a professor at psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center. He’s written “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” #medecine #braintrauma #science
Then on BioTech Nation, we talk to MARTIN McGLYNN, President & CEO, StemCells, Inc. about initial attempts at stem cell treatments for such different conditions as spinal cord injury, PMD (Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease) and age-related macular degeneration begin to show promise. #spinalcordinjury #pmd #stemcells #health

Episode 15-22 The Neuroscience of the Organized Mind !!! Jun 02, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
McGill professor and behavioral neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.” Our brains need to operate differently today than they ever did before.
Then on BioTech Nation, “The most important genome in your body may not be your own.” So says MOHAN IYER, the Chief Business Officer of Second Genome. We talk about our microbiomes – the trillions of microbes which populate our bodies, as well as the impact they may have on us.

Episode 15-21 Nobel Prizes explained! May 27, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
a panel of esteemed professors, who will explain each of the 2014 Nobel prizes, and why they are important.
These include:
GENARO PADILLA
English Professor
UC Berkeley,
STEPHEN ZUNES
Politics Professor
University of San Francisco,
JOE FARRELL
Economics Professor
UC Berkeley,
CONNIE CHANG
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor
UC Berkeley,
Jai Yu
Neuroscientist
UC San Francisco
Center for Integrative Neuroscience

Episode 15-20 Crowdsourcing for … Everything! May 20, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
LIOR ZOREF, former Microsoft vice president of marketing for consumer and online services. He’ll tell us about his book: “Mindsharing, The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything.”
Then on BioTech Nation, DR JOE MILETICH , the Senior Vice President for R&D at Amgen. We’ll hear about “oncolytic viruses” specifically designed to go after cancers, and advances in lowering cholesterol, based on genetics.

Episode 15-19 The Future Evolution of Humans … May 12, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
venture capitalist JUAN ENRIQUEZ talks about “Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth.”
Then on BioTech Nation, we talk to DR BARBARA FOX CEO, Avaxia Biologics about a treatment for pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease and to DR CRAIG AUDET Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Arena Pharmaceuticals
about an FDA-approved obesity drug which is also being considered for smoking cessation.

Episode 15-18 Where dreams are drawn May 09, 2015

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ED CATMULL, the President of Pixar Animation. He’s talking about creativity, but it’s also creativity – 80% done, they lost both the main files and the back-up files to Toy Story.
Then on BioTech Nation we talk MARJANNE PRINS, CEO of OrgaNext Research about a new approach to recovery from hip fracture –both biotech-supported advanced nutrition and what it takes to build muscles.

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