Topic: Biotech
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with biotech journalist David Ewing Duncan, the author of "The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with my DNA," who shares the experience of submitting himself to just about every genetics test known to man. [BioTech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
On Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr Sean Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and author of "Endless Forms Most Beautiful -- The New Science of Evo Devo." It's the nickname for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Among other issues, they discuss if evolution itself is evolving. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Betsy Dresser, Vice President for Research & Director of ACRES - The Audubon Canter for Research on Endangered Species. Betsy tell us about their frozen zoo. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Charles O'Connor, the Director of The Advanced Materials Research Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. You'll hear where biotechnology and nanotechnology meet, and a new approach for delivering drugs. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
In a special long-form edition of Biotech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with healthcare and business journalist Fran Hawthorne. They look at the pressures that affect the FDA -- from big pharma to everyday American citizens. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Elizabeth Holmes, the President and CEO of Theranos, who will tell us how her patented technology just might save your life. [Biotech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
On this edition of BioTech Nation, UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Peggy Lemaux speaks with host Dr. Moira Gunn on what's been genetically modified at our grocery stores. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jerry Sanders, the managing director of San Francisco Science, who tells us how one of their products, Femspec, went from a doctor's dream to an actual medical device. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
On Biotech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Suzi Leather, the head of Great Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Find out how this nation which permits stem cell research, actually exerts far more government controls than the US. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Johns-Hopkins' Deborah Rudacille about scientific definitions -- science now shows us that tens of millions of people do not fall into the physiological definition of either male and female. They talk about her new book: "The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights." [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
