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Bio Eats World

Bio (our shorthand for the intersection of the life sciences, healthcare, technology, and industry) is today where the computing revolution was 50 years ago: on the precipice of revolutionizing our world, and in ways we are only just beginning to appreciate. Through conversations with leading experts from scientists to company builders — as well as special “Journal Club” episodes where we bridge academic and industry from paper to practice — this show examines how bio is fundamentally transforming every industry and our lives. In short, bio is eating the world. [Show temporarily on hiatus.]

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Featured Episodes

The Biology of Aging

Laura Deming, Kristen Fortney, Vijay Pande, and Hanne Winarsky

The Machine that Made the Vaccine

Stephane Bancel, Jorge Conde, and Hanne Winarsky

Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins

Carolyn Bertozzi and Lauren Richardson
Latest Episodes

From the Archives: The Art & Science of Biology's Future with Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

The Power of a Platform Company with Josh Mandel-Brehm

Josh Mandel-Brehm, Jorge Conde, and Olivia Webb

Culture and Company Building with Sam Corcos

Sam Corcos, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

Payments & Payors: Fintech's Role with Kurt Adams

Kurt Adams, Marc Andrusko, and Daisy Wolf

American Optimism with Joe Lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

Going to Market in Healthcare: B2C2B

Julie Yoo, Jay Rughani, Kate Ryder, Amanda Rees, and Bill Porter

Advancing the Field of Immunotherapeutics

Kevin Parker, Olivia Webb, and Jorge Conde

Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

Kristen Fortney, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

Payors and Providers Post-Pandemic

Paul Keckley, Julie Yoo, and Olivia Webb

Using AI to Take Bio Farther

Jakob Uszkoreit, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower

Marc Andreessen, and Vijay Pande

Cultivated Meat: Challenges, Opportunities, Future

Joshua March, Vijay Pande, and Olivia Webb

AI is Here. Now What?

Eric Topol, Vijay Pande, Vineeta Agarwala, and Olivia Webb

Regulatory Trends in Telehealth

Daisy Wolf, Sarah Thomas, and Olivia Webb

Demystifying DC: Opportunities for Collaboration

Vineeta Agarwala, Bobby Franklin, and Olivia Webb

The Consolidated Drug Channel and Cash-Pay Drugs

Adam Fein, Julie Yoo, and Olivia Webb

Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?

Vijay Pande, Jon Lai, and Olivia Webb

Carolyn Bertozzi and Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins

Lauren Richardson, Olivia Webb, and Carolyn Bertozzi

Deploying AI Platforms to Identify Sepsis

Suchi Saria, Vineeta Agarwala, Neri Cohen, and Olivia Webb

Discovery, Translation, and the State of Bio Today

Jorge Conde, Alexander Marson, and Patrick Hsu

Engineering an Epigenome Editor

Jonathan Weissman, Vijay Pande, and Lauren Richardson

Evolving Embodied Intelligence

Vijay Pande, Li Fei-Fei, Lauren Richardson, and Surya Ganguli

Building Digital Health's Github

Julie Yoo, and Jonathan Bush

The Genetic Testing (R)Evolution

Vineeta Agarwala, Lauren Richardson, and Peter Donnelly

The Problem with Urgent Care

Lauren Richardson, Vineeta Agarwala, and Justin Larkin

Viral Genomes from A to Z

Judy Savitskaya, and Lauren Richardson

World’s largest supercomputer v. biology’s toughest problems

Vijay Pande, Lauren Richardson, and Greg Bowman

The Trials of Clinical Trials

Lauren Richardson, Vineeta Agarwala, and James Zou

The New Science of Cell Shape

Maddison Masaeli, Vijay Pande, and Lauren Richardson

Journal Club: Sleeping Under the Star-Shaped Cells

Kira Poskanzer, and Lauren Richardson

The Power of Patient-Centric Healthcare

Julie Yoo, Freda Lewis-Hall, and Jay Rughani

Journal Club: Hunting the Eagle Killer

Lauren Richardson, and Susan B Wilde

Journal Club: Sourcing the Secrets of Climate Adaptation

Thomas Juenger, and Lauren Richardson

Evolution: Animals, Aliens, and Ourselves

Lauren Richardson, and Arik Kershenbaum

Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth... Again!

Lauren Richardson, and Anthony Atala

Solving Medical Mysteries in the World of Rare Disease

Hanne Winarsky, and Euan Ashley

Journal Club: Taming the Taste for Blood

Lauren Richardson, and Leslie Vosshall

The Theory of a Thousand Brains

Jeff Hawkins, Hanne Winarsky, and Vijay Pande

Journal Club: Restoring a Reflex

Aaron Phillips, and Lauren Richardson

Sea Turtle Medicine

Hanne Winarsky, and Max Polyak

Journal Club: Assembling an Egg

Vineeta Agarwala, Justin Larkin, Lauren Richardson, and Judy Savitskaya

The Art and Science of Biology's Future

Jennifer Doudna, and Vijay Pande

Journal Club: Engineering Living Materials

Lauren Richardson, Judy Savitskaya, and Tom Ellis

Value Versus Volume (in Healthcare)

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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm in Healthcare

Julie Yoo, Vijay Pande, Marc Andreessen, Nikhil Krishnan, Vineeta Agarwala, and Jorge Conde

Journal Club: My Tick Teacher

Lauren Richardson, and Seemay Chou

May I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please?

Julie Yoo, Malinka Walaliyadde, Bill Frist, and Hanne Winarsky

Journal Club: Suppressing Superbugs

Andrew F Read, and Lauren Richardson

From Junk DNA to an RNA Revolution

Jorge Conde, Hanne Winarsky, and Rick Young

Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging

Andy Tran, Lauren Richardson, and Jorge Conde

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