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TechNation Radio Podcast

Dr Moira Gunn

TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn

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Episode 23-41 Rethinking Being Human

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2023/10/12

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withVirginia Tech Professor Ashley Shew about “Against Technoableism … Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about your digital twin, and Dr. Anthony Japour, President and CEO of iTolerance, tells us about a new approach to treating diabetes.

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Episode 23-40 Google’s First Radio Interview Ever!

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2023/10/05

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In recognition of Google’s 25th anniversary this year 2000 Tech Nation interview is the first radio interview they ever did. But first, cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. Then, Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, tells us about the explosion of digital health

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Episode 23-39 Ian Wilmut, Dolly & Biotech

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2023/09/27

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sir Ian Wilmut, the Scottish embryologist and the leader for the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. This 2007 BioTech Nation interview marked the 10th anniversary of Dolly’s birth. Then, Michael Shermer talks about his book, “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in immortality

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Episode 23-38 Making Effective Therapies, Even More...

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2023/09/20

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withTom Ireland, Science Journalist and Author, “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”. Then Dr. Robert Ladner, CEO & Founder of CV6 Therapeutics, tells us about their work to improve a cornerstone cancer chemotherapy.

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Episode 23-37 The Right Antidepressant the First Time?

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2023/09/15

On this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. Dr. Amit Etkin, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential. Then Sir Rory Collins, the Principal Investigator of the UK BioBank. With data from half a million people, it has served 30,000 scientists around the world, giving special support to young researchers and scientists in emergent countries.

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Episode 23-36 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare...

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2023/09/06

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CEO Dr. Ben Thomas and Chief Commercial Officer Dermot Tierney from Amply Discovery talks about how their novel approach to AI in drug discovery. Then, Dr. Daniel Kraft, the founder and chair of NextMed Health tells us about ChatGPT and Healthcare. And Dr. Alex Pang’s still relevant 2013 interview on smartphones and social media – it’s "The Distraction Addiction."

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Episode 23-35 How the NSF sprung into action during...

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2023/08/31

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan, the Director of the National Science Foundation talks about how they had to pivot during Covid to act fast. Then, in Biotech, with today’s cannabis concentrations, acute cannabis intoxication is on the rise. Dr. Ken Cundy, CSO at Anebulo Pharma is working to create an antidote.

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Episode 23-34 Are you healthy? Your tech can tell

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2023/08/24

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks on the ability to monitor both our health … and our illnesses. Even the ability to see if our medical condition is changing or that last update in prescription really worked. And what about when you travel? Dr. Kal Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of BrightInsight. He tells us about the challenges and BrightInsight’s solutions. Then speaking of all this new tech, where are we going with all this? David Ewing Duncan’s insights from his 2019 book, “Talking to

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Episode 23-33 Amazon or Walmart -- who's got the tech?

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2023/08/16

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist Jason Del Rey about Amazon and Walmart - how they are different and their designs on your attention. His book is “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets”.Then in biotech, breakthrough science which changes the name of the game on how to make a medicine. Dr. Sanjay Shukla, the President and CEO of ATyr Pharma, takes this unprecedented approach and ATyr’s first drug candidate which treats pulmonary sarcoidosis.

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Episode 23-32 From Big Bang to You – The Atoms that...

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2023/08/11

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dan Levitt, Award-winning documentary producer and Author, “What’s Gotten Into You … The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner.” Then, in Biotech, we look at progress in Gliobastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Dr. Fahar Merchant, the President & CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics, joins me to talk about their unprecedented approach to clinical trials.

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Episode 23-31 A 1-2-3 Punch for Alzheimer’s

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2023/08/03

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Gene Kinney, the President and CEO of Prothena Biosciences, about a 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s - fighting amyloids, fighting tau, and their work on a vaccine that just might prevent Alzheimer’s altogether. Then Daniel Pink talks about Regret. Research shows you can begin to ease the pain by writing 15 minutes a day for 3 days. His book is “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”.

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Episode 23-30 YouTube – 500 hrs of Video per Minute

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2023/07/28

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg and BusinessWeek journalist Mark Bergen about the challenge of keeping up with the 100’s of hours of video uploaded every minute. His book is “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination”. Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor Kara Platoni’s original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even more relevant

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Episode 23-29 Yes, you can outrun a Tyrannosaurus

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2023/07/20

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Cody Cassidy, Wired contributor, “How to Survive History … How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes”. Then, Wharton Professor, Dr. Jonah Berger, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How to Change Anyone’s Mind”.

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Episode 23-28 The Science of Botany is Not for the Timid

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2023/07/13

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Melissa Sevigny (Sev-inn-nee), Science Journalist and Author, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”. Then, Emory University Professor Dr. Cassandra Quave is in search of plants for medical botany. Her book is, “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”

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Episode 23-27 High Seas Conspiracy

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2023/07/06

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek investigative journalist Kit Chellel (“Shell-lel”) talks about “Dead in the Water … A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.” It makes the movie “Captain Philips” look pretty tame. Then if you thought that all the new vaccines would be mRNA vaccines – you’d be wrong. Dr. Robert Coleman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines. Even better,

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Episode 23-26 Mapping Biology??

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2023/06/30

On this week’s Tech Nation, conjure up images of test tubes, and replace it with tiny wells on index-card-size trays, and robots moving them to and fro. Dr. Chris Gibson, the CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their effort to analyze all of human biology, and the drugs in their very own pipeline. Then, who knew Sociology and Criminology were linked? University of Denver professor Jared Del Rosso talks about his book “Denial … How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems””, and

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Episode 23-25 Your distant cousins and their DNA ...

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2023/06/20

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Ed Humes. His latest is “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no fiction writer would dare to make up, like the unexpected involvement of the famous true crimes writer, Ann Rule, and a person whose DNA skills are familiar to fans of the PBS documentary

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Episode 23-24 Digital Technology, Freedom & Democracy

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2023/06/15

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jamie Susskind about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. Dr. Hamid Khoja, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.

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Episode 23-23 What’s Up with Netflix?

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2023/06/08

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists Dade Hayes & Dawn Chmielewski about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? Dr. Maria Maccecchini, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.

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Episode 23-22 How Data is Revolutionizing...

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2023/05/31

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bruce Schoenfeld, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports.”, about the data revolution in professional sports.

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