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Episode 40 10/08/2013 Tech Nation: "Brave Genius" Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.
Then on BioTech Nation, how decoding the human genome affects the durgs of our future, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's Google vs. Death.

Episode 39: 10/01/2013 Tech Nation: A Beautiful new bridge Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DONALD McDONALD, the architect of the new East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new global healthcare report form Deloitte, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, we look at the impact of reducing federal funds on new medical research.

Episode 38: 09/24/2013 Tech Nation: Robert Oppenheimer Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation,
we look at a time in American life when a scientist and science were
forefront in the minds of the public. We talk about the atomic
bomb, the media embrace of Robert Oppenheimer, and national
interests in the post-World War II Cold War.
Then on BioTech Nation, an Australian firm takes antibodies from sharks to create new medications. And the latest report on the environmental impact of biotechnology on global agriculture.

Episode 37: 09/17/2013 Tech Nation: Technology and Distraction Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Futurist ALEX PANG about The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information you need and the communication you want without enraging your family, annoying your colleagues and destroying your soul.
Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from ALEX KARLE, the COO of The Evaluate Group in London. He tells us about their global report on orphan drugs - therapeutics for diseases and conditions that affect mere thousands of humans, but may hold the key to treatments affecting everyone.

Episode 36: 09/10/2013 Tech Nation: Can Austerity Kill? Science thinks so Jul 03, 2014

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On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Stanford's Dr. Sanjay Basu about how cutting some social programs when times are bad hurts more than we realise, it's actually there in the economics data.
Then on BioTech Nation, we hear about new hope in fighting hospital acquired infections and on BioIssue of the Week, David gets his own stem cell line.

Episode 35: 09/3/2013 Tech Nation: Status from the Frontlines of the War on Cancer Jul 03, 2014

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On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Fortune contributing editor CLIFTON LEAF and a look at the 40 year old war on cancer.
And on BioTech Nation, DR. BEN CHEN, the Executive Chairman of Immune Targeting Systems in London tells us why your T cells have great potential for fighting challenges from the flu to cancer.

Episode 34: 08/27/2013 Tech Nation: Sports genes? Jul 03, 2014

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On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Sports Illustrated's DAVID EPSTEIN , about "The Sports
Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance."
Then on Biotech Nation, how decades of tissue samples for Lupus are
more important than ever. And on BioIssue of the Week with David
Ewing Duncan, answers the quetsion: "If somebody puts my DNA out
there online can somebody figure out it's me?"

Episode 33: 08/13/2013 Tech Nation: Denial, more than just a river in Egypt Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DR. AJIT VARKI talks about Denial answering the
question, why did humans develop such complex mental abilities and
other species did not?
Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on a
cocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyone
in the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.

Episode 32: 08/06/2013 Tech Nation: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
SARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about Motherhood Rescheduled, women
actually freezing their own eggs.
Then on BioTech Nation, protecting our annual flu shots from
sometimes missing a strain, and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing
Duncan tells us all about the micro biome, a hundred trillion
critters in each of us.

Episode 31 07/30/2013 Tech Nation: BIG Data Jul 03, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
GUNNAR CARLSSON, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
and co-founder of Ayasdi about Big Data.
Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from DR. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of
Psioxus Therapeutics in Oxford, England. They're working on
oncolytic viruses , viruses which invade and kill cancer cells,
while ignoring all others.

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