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Episode 14-49 Tech Nation: The NFL … and the science of the brain … Dec 09, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ESPN investigative journalist Mark Fainaru-Wada , the author of League of Denial … The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary. Then on BioTech Nation, progress for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe with Chris Garabedian, the CEO of Surepta Therapeutics.
And on BiosIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's possible to beam me up, Scotty – only this time it’s your DNA.

Episode 14-48 Tech Nation: DNA handed down through the generations … Dec 03, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with RUTH DEFRIES , a MacArthur Winner and author of “The Big Ratchet – How Humanity Survives in the Face of Natural Crisis, a biography of an ingenious species”.
Then on BioTech Nation, moving breakthrough science to viable medicines in many fields from colorectal cancer to antibiotics resistance. Moira speaks with Dr. Tom Gibbs, Director of DebioPharm from Lausanne, Switzerland.
And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, new data just in - the surprising differences in the costs of medical procedures from one town to the next.

Episode 14-47 Tech Nation: DNA handed down through the generations … Nov 26, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist CHRISTINE KENNEALLY about “The Invisible History of the Human Race – How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.”
Then on BioTech Nation, an important breakthrough in studying human disease – DR. BRIAN WAMHOFF, a co-founder and head of R&D at Hemoshear, tells us about their technology which enables the study of humans never before possible. Then on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, David gives us the new “number” - how much it costs to develop a new drug - you’ll likely be shocked.

Episode 14-46 Tech Nation: Innovation – past, present and future … Nov 21, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON, the author of “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” It took the hands of many to create all the technology we use every day.
Then on BioTech Nation, Carnegie-Mellon’s ART BONI and Wharton’s STEVE SAMMUT talk about the annual Bioentrepreneurship Boot Camp. And for the crucial start-up funding necessary to all bioenterprise, we hear from DR. JAY LICHTER , a Venture Partner at Avalon Ventures.

Episode 14-45 Tech Nation: Automation and Us … from a non-techie’s viewpoint … Nov 13, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former Harvard Business Review Executive Editor NICHOLAS CARR, the author of “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us”, about the effect of technology all around us.
Then on BioTech Nation, an approach to screen for a wide host of diseases including cancer and diabetes, 5 years or more before symptoms appear. And improved cancer treatments, all because we can read the cancer’s DNA.
Guests are DR. ARIF ANWAR, the Executive Director of Sengenics, and DR. CHUCK BAUM, the President and CEO, Mirati Therapeutics.

Episode 14-44 Tech Nation: Nobel Prizes Explained 2014 Nov 05, 2014

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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.
Panel Convener
LUDWIG CHINCARINI Professor, Finance and Economics, University of San Francisco
For the prize in LITERATURE
GENARO PADILLA Professor, English, UC Berkeley
For the prize in PEACE
STEPHEN ZUNES Professor, Politics, University of San Francisco
For the ECONOMICS prize
JOE FARRELL Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley
For two prizes - in PHYSICS and in CHEMISTRY
CONNIE CHANG professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
For the prize in PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
JAI YU Neuroscientist, UCSF's Center for Integrative Neuroscience

Episode 14-43 Tech Nation: Gutenberg’s Apprentice … Oct 29, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ALIX CHRISTIE about
GUTENBERG'S APPRENTICE– like all technology, it turns out it was a team effort.
Then on BioTech Nation, a virus hunter and a drug hunter. STAN ERCK, CEO of NovaVax, tells us how they create new vaccines to protect against RSV in very young children, and we speak with DR. PEARL HUANG about DISCOVERY PARTNERSHIPS (DPAc) AT GLAXOSMITHKLINE and how they seek out and support promising of university research scientists in the hunt for new drugs.

Episode 14-42 Tech Nation: Big Data – What Stays in Vegas … Oct 23, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
ADAM TANNER, a fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the author of “What Stays in Vegas – The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It.”
Then on BioTech Nation, TODD SKRINAR , Principal for Life Sciences Advisory and Leader for Big Data Advanced Analytics at ERNST and YOUNG. All those clinical trials needed to prove a drug is safe? Big data and getting bigger.

Episode 14-41 Tech Nation: The Neuroscience of Trauma … Oct 15, 2014

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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.”
Then on BioTech Nation, initial attempts at stem cell treatments for such different conditions as spinal cord injury, PMD and age-related macular degeneration begin to show promise.

Episode 14-40 Tech Nation: who we are (when we think no one's looking) … Oct 08, 2014

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On this week’s Tech Nation, what can we learn about being human from dating websites. Moira speaks with CHRISTIAN RUDDER, the president of OkCupid where he leads data analytics. He’s written DATACLYSM: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking).
Then on BioTech Nation, quickly detecting diseases with small mobile devices. We talk to DR. ANITA GOEL, the CEO of NanoBioSym and winner of the 2013 Nokia Sensing X-Prize, talks about their device: GeneRadar. And RICHARD POPS, the CEO of Alkermes. He tells us how our typical thinking of one drug – one disease may not always be the case.

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