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Mendelspod Podcast

Mendelspod was founded in 2011 by Theral Timpson and Ayanna Monteverdi to advance life science research, connecting people and ideas. Influenced by the thinking tools developed by Eli Goldgratt, the f... Read more

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The Last Major Disease To Be Studied? Ron Davis of Stanford Thinks So

The Last Major Disease To Be Studied? Ron Davis of Stanford Thinks So

Let’s say you’re a biomedical researcher looking for a place to make your mark. You find out that there is still a maj... Read more

15 Jun 2017

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How to Scale Cancer Genomics, with Marco Marra, UBC

How to Scale Cancer Genomics, with Marco Marra, UBC

Back in 2009 at the annual AGBT meeting for sequencing, Marco Marra presented one of the first cases of cancer treatment... Read more

6 Dec 2016

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A Dangerous Book? Science Historian Nathaniel Comfort Discusses “A Troublesome Inheritance”

A Dangerous Book? Science Historian Nathaniel Comfort Discusses “A Troublesome Inheritance”

Guest:Comfort, Nathaniel, PhD, Author, Professor, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University ... Read more

25 Sep 2014

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Exploring the Exome and the Future of Genomics with Jay Shendure

Exploring the Exome and the Future of Genomics with Jay Shendure

Back in 2009, University of Washington professor, Jay Shendure, wrote a definitive paper offering up a roadmap for exome... Read more

13 Sep 2017

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The Sad State of Biospecimen Science with David Rimm, Yale

The Sad State of Biospecimen Science with David Rimm, Yale

Guest:David Rimm, Professor of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:16) An u... Read more

8 Jan 2015

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Clinicians Show High Demand for Single Cell Sequencing, Says Bobby Sebra of Mt. Sinai

Clinicians Show High Demand for Single Cell Sequencing, Says Bobby Sebra of Mt. Sinai

If today's guest were a super hero, he'd be High Resolution Sequencing Man.Bobby Sebra is the Director of Technology Dev... Read more

5 Oct 2017

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Cutting through the Hype in Healthcare Innovation with David Shaywitz and Lisa Suennen

Cutting through the Hype in Healthcare Innovation with David Shaywitz and Lisa Suennen

In today’s special studio interview, the health tech duo, David Shaywitz and Lisa Suennen, walk us through the changing ... Read more

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We’re Over Halfway There: Baylor's Richard Gibbs on Clinical Genetics

We’re Over Halfway There: Baylor's Richard Gibbs on Clinical Genetics

There’s a basic assumption in our field today that has been around for some time. We think of medicine as on a direct ... Read more

25 Oct 2016

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Over $1 Billion Invested this Past Year: Synthetic Biology in 2017 with John Cumbers

Over $1 Billion Invested this Past Year: Synthetic Biology in 2017 with John Cumbers

What does it take to make it in synthetic biology in 2017?

11 May 2017

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Ewan Birney on Race, UK Genomics

Ewan Birney on Race, UK Genomics

Our end-of-year special guest is one of the U.K.’s top genomicists, Ewan Birney, Co-Director of the European Bioinformat... Read more

17 Dec 2019

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Pharma Stepping Up, Footing the Bill for Genetic Testing & Counseling: Jordanna Mora, Alnylam

Pharma Stepping Up, Footing the Bill for Genetic Testing & Counseling: Jordanna Mora, Alnylam

It seems to be human nature to value and pay up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a little white pill that we can ... Read more

12 Jun 2018

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Why Diversity Is the Only Path Forward: Sarah Tishkoff on African Genomics

Why Diversity Is the Only Path Forward: Sarah Tishkoff on African Genomics

Are you lactose tolerant? If you’re of Northern European ancestry this is because of a stretch of DNA in a gene enhance... Read more

3 Nov 2016

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Nanopore Sequencing and the Future of Cancer Research with Chia-Lin Wei, JAX

Nanopore Sequencing and the Future of Cancer Research with Chia-Lin Wei, JAX

We can all recognize that PacBio has laid down the railroad tracks in the frontier of long read sequencing. What many a... Read more

18 Apr 2018

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Genetic Testing is Dead, Long Live Genetic Testing: Sean George of Invitae

Genetic Testing is Dead, Long Live Genetic Testing: Sean George of Invitae

A few years ago they were the new kid on the block, and now they are a leader of mainstream genetic testing. Last year ... Read more

3 May 2018

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In Partnership with IBM’s Watson, Pathway Genomics Reinvents Itself

In Partnership with IBM’s Watson, Pathway Genomics Reinvents Itself

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has had a bumpy ride.Back in 2010, Pathway Genomics and Walgreens made a deal t... Read more

12 Mar 2015

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Detective Stories from the Genomic War Room with Ramesh Hariharan

Detective Stories from the Genomic War Room with Ramesh Hariharan

A book like this only comes around once in a while—one never knows from which corner. This time it was written by the C... Read more

26 Jul 2018

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How Personalized is Personalized Medicine? Krister Wennerberg on FIMM’s Individualized Systems Medicine

How Personalized is Personalized Medicine? Krister Wennerberg on FIMM’s Individualized Systems Medicine

Most of the time, when we talk about personalized medicine, it’s not that personalized. What we’re really talking about... Read more

22 Sep 2016

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The State of Genomics 2018 with Nathan, Laura, and Misha

The State of Genomics 2018 with Nathan, Laura, and Misha

Our first show of the year is an outlook on genomics for 2018. To do this we’re joined by our regular commentators, Nat... Read more

8 Jan 2018

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