For millennia, humans have believed that aging is inevitable. Yet thirty years ago, the work of Professor Cynthia Kenyon and her …
What is a thought? Some may think that question is quite abstract, but it has huge implications for science and computer design.
Psychiatry is changing and will be unrecognizable in the next 10-20 years, given our new understanding about the role of brain ci…
This week we speak with Professor David Baker about the enormous scope for making new proteins and how that translates into pract…
In the last 20 years or so, many new cancer treatments have emerged that provide greater precision and targeting of cancer cells.…
Genome editing holds the potential to be a transformative new therapy, and the pace of progress is truly breathtaking.
In this episode we explore the vastness of the dark genome and why "junk DNA" has been overlooked for so many decades.
Julia Vitarello is the mother of Mila Makovec, and the Founder and CEO of Mila’s Miracle Foundation.
Aviv Regev is a computational biologist and Executive Vice President of Genentech Research and Early Development. She was profess…
Dr. Amy Abernethy is an oncologist, specialist in palliative care medicine, researcher, previous Professor of Medicine at Duke Un…
David Altshuler is Executive Vice President, Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Timothy Yu walks us through his experience running the first "N of 1" drug trial for a young patient with a devastating genet…
Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is Managing Partner at GV, and a practicing physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Theory and Practice speaks with Dr. Caroline Uhler, currently the Henry L. and Grace Doherty associate professor in EECS (Electri…
Theory and Practice speaks with Professor Jennifer Listgarten, Professor in UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci…
Theory and Practice speaks with Professor Sir Rory Collins, Head of Nuffield Department of Population Health at Oxford University…
Dr. Anne Carpenter is the inventor of CellProfiler and designed a method for coloring and analyzing cells. She works at the Broad…
One week until Theory and Practice returns! Join Anthony and Alex as they discuss cutting-edge health developments with leaders i…
The hosts interview a panel of distinguished guests, including life sciences entrepreneur and investor Alexis Borisy, Finale Dosh…
Zach Weinberg is the co-founder, president, and COO of Flatiron Health. He discusses his entrepreneurial journey and Flatiron Hea…
Cori Bargmann is the head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She is also the head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laborat…
Professor Daphne Koller is the CEO and founder of insitro. She joins the podcast to discuss how machine learning and biology can …
David Sontag, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, explores how artificial intelligence can…
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, joins the show to discuss human genetics …