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Episode 18-07 How To Fix The Future

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2018/02/14

On this week’s Tech Nation, Andrew Keen talks about “How to fix the Future”. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Steve Mento from Conatus Pharmaceuticals talks about our livers and their scientific work in treating NASH and Cirrhosis of the liver. Also, Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft describes the social determinants of health. Yes, it makes a difference.

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Episode 18-06 TN Health – Better Tech for Cancer + Zika

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2018/02/07

On this week’s Tech Nation, a full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can

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Episode 18-05 Tech Is More Than Gadgets

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2018/02/01

On this week’s Tech Nation, with an overview of CES 2018, Rick Kowalski, the Manager of Industry and Business Intelligence at the Consumer Technology Association. And going beyond gadgets, Arizona State professor Cody Friesen (“Free-senn”) tells us how his company, Zero Mass Water, is building hydropanels, producing water from sunlight and air. And in healthcare, Dr. Neal Kassell (“Kaas-sell”) talks about the global potential and the challenges focused ultrasound.

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Episode 18-04 Who Owns Athlete’s Data?

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2018/01/25

On this week’s Tech Nation, members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” Dr. Leslie Saxon, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Eric Winston, the President of the NFL Players Association. Dave Aufhauser, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And Guy Kawasaki with a vision of our futures with autonomous vehicles.

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Episode 18-03 Animatronics for Social Good

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2018/01/18

On this week’s BioTech Nation, Aaron Horowitz and Hannah Chung, Co-Founders of Sproutel and Designers of My Special AFLAC Duck, for children with cancer. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Todd Brady, CEO of Aldeyra describes their work on a disease which affects one-third of people. It led to a new drug helping patients with a very rare disease - Sjögren (“Show-gren”) -Larsson Syndrome

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Episode 18-02 Virtual Reality – Dawn of the New...

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2018/01/09

On this week’s BioTech Nation, Jaron Lanier talks about “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Hartmut Ehrlich, the CEO opf Abivax, describes their efforts to keep HIV undetectable for longer and longer periods, and Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft explores the future of going to the doctor.

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Episode 18-01 Focus Groups? Now it’s videos on your...

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2018/01/03

On this week’s BioTech Nation, how video on your smartphone is the next generation of focus groups. We’ll hear from Patricia Roller, the CEO of Vidlet(VID-LETT). Then on Tech Nation Health, the link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease, Dr. Jerold Chun is a Professor and Director of Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.

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Episode 17-52 Finding Fibonacci

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2018/01/03

On this week’s BioTech Nation, “The NPR Math Guy”, Keith Devlin, tells us about Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.

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Episode 17-51 How Google Works – and Alphabet, too!

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2017/12/21

On this week’s BioTech Nation, former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, Eric Schmidt along with former Senior Vice President for Products, Jonathan Rosenberg talk about “How Google Works”. Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. John McDonough, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about their efforts in Sepsis and other new diagnostics for candida and Lyme disease.

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Episode 17-50 Technology invents Play invents more...

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2017/12/12

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Steven Johnson, the Author, “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.

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Episode 17-38 In-Home Security – it knows when you’re...

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2017/09/20

On this week’s BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with … Dr. Taj Manku, the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada. AuraHome enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows – no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She talks about information

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Episode 17-37 The Science of Curiosity

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2017/09/13

On this week's BioTech Nation, Dr. Mario Livio and his book: Why? What Makes Us Curious. And on Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. Dr. Stephen Kingsmore, the President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.

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Ep 17-36 My Device/Myself

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2017/09/05

On this week's BioTech Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist Matt Richtel about his latest novel, "Dead on Arrival". And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.

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Episode 17-35 The Opioid Crisis

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2017/09/05

On this week's Tech Nation, Dr Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the grip of addiction and the opioid crisis, prescription opiates, heroin and fentanyl, synthetically-produced heroin. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines misaligned incentives. in healthcare, and Dr. Ciara Kennedy, CEO of Amplyx Pharmacecuticals, tells us about treating life-threatening fungal infections.

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Episode 17-34 Secondary PTSD ? It can be inherited!

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2017/08/23

On this week's BioTech Nation, Mark Wolynn, the Director of the Family Constellation Institute, and author of "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle." Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft speaks to the new science of diet, and Dr. Evan Snyder from the Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. They figured why Lithium works for Bipolar Disorder, and why that's important for all of us.

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Episode 17-33 The Scientist Who Took the Lead Out of...

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2017/08/16

On this week's BioTech Nation, we'll hear from Dr. Herb Needleman, who measured the impact of very low levels of lead on children, and the result removed lead from household paint and put unleaded gasoline in our cars. Then, another scientist who wanted research to reach the people who needed it - Dr. Perry Nisen, CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. And Dr. Oliver Fetzer, CEO of Synthetic Genomics, enabling scientists to create unique DNA overnight in their own

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Episode 17-32 The Science of Storytelling

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2017/08/09

On this week's BioTech Nation, Carmine Gallo relates "The Story Teller's Secret" Turns out - there's a science to telling your story. Then on Tech Nation Health, we learn that there's more in your gut than bacteria. Case-Western University Professor Mahmoud Ghannoum and his son, Afif (Ah-Feefth) Ghannoum, the CEO of Pathobiome (path-oh-bye-ohm), about fungus. Decades of NIH-funded research tell us what they do, how they interact with the bacteria, and why that's important.

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