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Innovation Overground

We find all the cool academic innovations so you don"t have to. Sponsored and produced by UNeMed, the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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Innovation Overground: Smartphone says...have the...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/09/23

Join the crew on a fever dream into a brave new future where your smartphones assiduously order meals for you. Oh, and that food is full of special goodies for your gut critters. Featured Technologies: https://brandeis.flintbox.com/#technologies/e3d8a7e3-17ab-4a30-8d30-37ef837214cf; https://inventions.prf.org/innovation/3170 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music:

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Innovation Overground: The fault in our blood (211)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/09/16

On this episode the crew discusses the rapid advancement in blood testing capabilities—from assessing your biological age and predicting your lifespan and “healthspan” to diagnosing depressive behavior like MDD and PTSD. This episode is equal parts geeky and bloody! Featured Technology: https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/30521.html; https://www.invo.northwestern.edu/technologies/technologies/index_copy.html Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr

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18:36

Innovation Overground: The skynet matrix of...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/09/09

On this episode the crew discusses the potential for link the human brain with computers, the internet and Elon Musk's PDA. Featured Technologies: https://www.neuralink.com/; https://www.flintbox.com/public/project/16674/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

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18:29

Innovation Overground: Your best immortal life (209)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/08/26

Innovative new technologies are putting humanity on the verge of transcending the bounds of human mortality all because the Overground wants to live forever. Featured Technology: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-ray-kurzweil-up-to-at-google-writing-your-emails/; https://www.sens.org/; https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/senescent-cell-research-moves-into-human-trials-2/; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge

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17:01

Innovation Overground: Regenerative medicine has a...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/08/19

Scientists are hacking multi-cellularity. Translation: Cells from your cheek could be turned into stem cells, and then re-grown them into some other body part, like a lung or tonsil. They can also change them into parts that are nearly you. Join the Overground as they are curiously repulsed by organoids: The synthetic step between cells, organs and a newer, healthier you. Featured Technology: Links coming soon. Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe

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Innovation Overground: Ethical eagle burgers (207)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/08/12

The future is now, and it’s lab grown meat: eagle steaks, extruded meat, slaughterhouse daycare, cellular agriculture. Nothing seems impossible as startup companies spring up with industrial-scale cell cultures, and make kinder, better burgers...named Floyd? Featured Technology: https://www.robertyaman.com/; https://www.memphismeats.com/; http://www.modernmeadow.com/; https://phys.org/news/2019-02-israeli-startups-firms-lab-grown-meat.html; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton);

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Innovation Overground: Alzheimer’s billion-dollar...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/08/05

Every idea is built on assumptions. Multi-billion-dollar drug development projects are based on less-than-perfect understandings of underlying disease. That understanding could be wrong...at a cost of more than $1,000,000,000. Join the Overground as they pop the balloon of scientific orthodoxy with recent discoveries that challenge what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease. Featured Technology:

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Innovation Overground: Full-frontal drones (205)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/07/29

The Overground turns its terrible attention to drones. To usher in age of drone management the crew composes drone limericks, drone haiku and odes to improved efficiency in traffic management, crop husbandry and the infrastructure of 21st century renewable energy. Featured Technology: https://www.flintbox.com/public/project/29935/; http://innovation.columbia.edu/technologies/CU18117_automated-disease-detection-in; http://www.research.usf.edu/dpl/content/data/PDF/18B141.pdf Hosts:

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17:19

Innovation Overground: Securing our elections from...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/07/22

At this very moment Norwegian Bond villains are Photoshopping your pictures to swing local school board elections. University innovation to the rescue! Join the Overground to learn how public-private partnerships are leveraging university innovation and corporate efficiency to secure our elections. Featured Technology: https://www.popsci.com/adobe-ai-photo-manipulation-tool/; https://galois.com/blog/2019/05/protecting-election-integrity-with-electionguard/ Hosts: Charlie Litton

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17:22

Innovation Overground: Deus ex nanotech! (203)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/07/15

Smaller than a single cell, and using bleeding edge technology, next-generation robots will remake biological systems with the precision of human engineering and the innovation of the internet... sometime in the distant future. Joe went searching for next generation nanotechnology and came back with tubes, nanotubes that is. Listen as the Overground crew riffs on advanced material science, biologically inspired sensors and the under-appreciated brilliance of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle.

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Innovation Overground: Party drug turned promising...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/07/08

The Overground looks into innovations around the biology of MDMA (also known as exstasy, molly, beans, thizz, vowels or Malcom). Trace the drug’s interesting history as it begins in big pharma labs, then moves to CIA mind control experiments and therapists’ offices, before jumping into the 1980’s party scene and the DEA’s banned substance list, before landing in its modern renaissance. Today, PTSD patients are re-wiring their brains with this fascinating drug. Featured Technology:

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12:33

Innovation Overground: Medical marijuana and the...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/07/01

In this episode the Overground looks at some of the research surrounding medical marijuana. Featured Technology: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cannabidiol-cbd-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-2018082414476; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=THC%2C+CBD&cntry=&state=&city=&dist= Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown

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19:26

Innovation Overground: Blockchain explained (145)

Innovation Overground ·

2019/06/21

The Overground crew celebrates the end of the first season by embracing financial oblivion. In the future financial transactions will track themselves. Nations will no longer control currency. Losing the password for your email may literally cost you all your money. Through the magic of blockchain there is an alternative universe where technology gives you total financial autonomy. Featured Technology:

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Innovation Overground: Eat less raw snails, fight...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/06/17

Global climate catastrophe got you down? University innovation to the rescue! Discover how probiotic yogurt can stem the invasion of parasitic diseases from more tropical climes. Marvel at innovation that hacks plants to pull even more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Gain serious misgivings as academics address the dilemma of climate modification with...more climate modification? Featured Technology:

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Innovation Overground: Robotic ping pong balls of...

Innovation Overground ·

2019/06/10

Like they say, sometimes you’ve got to fight fire with...ping pong balls? Set your minds for counterintuitive as the Overground explores how new inventions can prevent fire by starting different fires; how strawberry Pop-Tarts predict natural disasters; and how an organized society can keep milk, bread and cat litter on the store shelves—even in a crisis. Featured Technology: https://droneamplified.com/how-it-works/; https://aim.autm.net/public/group/698/;

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Innovation Overground: Better security through science

Innovation Overground ·

2019/06/03

Who doesn’t want to feel more secure, right? University technology is providing a POLITICALLY NEUTRAL way to discuss how we secure our infrastructure, families and our countries. Joe tells us how basketballs and ancient housecats can train drones to efficiently find even the smallest of objects; how computers can integrate subconscious biological responses into image recognition to make computers more vigilant; and how new materials will make reinforced concrete even

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16:10

Innovation Overground: Artificial intelligence

Innovation Overground ·

2019/05/27

Artificial intelligence isn’t necessarily evil. Yes, AI can monitor your social medial account to assess your underlying emotional state, but it can also scan your computer network to flag malware. Yes, AI can learn to see patterns in your behavior faster than you can recognize you’re behaving them, but it can also instantly adapt to the ever-evolving threats of cyber security. Wade into the moral ambiguity of the future, and answer the age-old question: Have humans finally built a more

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Innovation Overground: Custom prosthetics

Innovation Overground ·

2019/05/20

We can now make custom prosthetics using only a smart phone and a standard 3D printer. Tyler takes the Overground inside the revolution occurring in prosthetics right here in Omaha, Nebraska. Soon, missing a hand will no longer mean a child can’t play the cello, harpoon narwhals or form genre-bending six-piece bluegrass bands. Featured Technology: https://www.unemed.com/product/hybrid-arm; https://www.unemed.com/product/modular-prosthetic-arm Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton);

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Innovation Overground: Nuclear fission...to go!

Innovation Overground ·

2019/05/13

Listen as the Overground crew look at green energy and the environment as Tyler shows how nuclear power has gone mini. Joe and Charlie discuss the pros and cons of a world where a nuclear reactor the size of a couch can power a small city, and the hard choices we’ll need to make to power the future. Featured Technology: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/story-behind-americas-first-potential-small-modular-reactor; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr

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Innovation Overground: Grow your own skull

Innovation Overground ·

2019/05/06

Join the Overground as Tyler fills that hole in your head with...3D printing. Innovative surgery researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center are making scaffolds to help that hole in your skull heal itself with a combination of 3D bioprinting and anti-infective drugs. Featured Technology: https://www.unemed.com/product/antimicrobial-bone-scaffold; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed

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