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Eric Topol hosts Ground Truths, a science show with 89 episodes published.
Helen Pearson, PhD, is an award-winning biomedical journalist at Nature, named European Science Journalist of the Year in 2025. She teaches science writing at University College London. BEYOND BELIEF is her second, just
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Joanna Stern was the Wall Street Journal technology journalist for 12 years. She’s an Emmy award winner for her documentary E-Ternal, and recently started her own company New Things, with added advice from ChatGPT! Over
“You are a slightly different genetic version of yourself today from yesterday, and will be different yet again tomorrow.”—Roxanne Khamsi “Each neuron really is a beautiful and unique snowflake”—Ed Yong Roxanne Khamsi is
This is one of my favorite books over recent years. Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Cocker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations and author of 6 bestselling books. THE INFINITY MA
Dr. Trisha Pasricha is a gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and the Ask a Doctor columnist for The Washington Post. Her new book gets deep into the stigmatized, taboo, rarely discussed top
Adrian is a molecular biologist and co-founder and CEO of Genyro, a synthetic biology company. He has published 2 previous books on life science (Life Without Genes and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics). In this
Yo-El Ju is the Barbara Burton and Reuben Morris Professor of Neurology at Washington University, St. Louis. She got her AB from Harvard and MD from Columbia and actively practices sleep medicine and is a prolific resear
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The vagus nerve, also known as the Great Nerve, connects the brain to all parts of the body, like an internet (Figure below). Every week we’re learning more about its importance for health and disease. Until recent years
Back in 2005 Dan Buettner patented Blue Zones. He’s written 9 books, of which 5 were NY Times bestsellers, and has another one in the works. His 2023 Netflix documentary series “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones” wo
Jonathan Kipnis is a neuroscientist, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University, St. Louis, who discovered meningeal lymphatics and has been a prolific res
A recording from my enthralling conversation with Prof Matthew Cobb about the life and science contributions of Francis Crick, regarded as one of the most influential biologists of all times, along with Darwin and Mendel
A couple of weeks ago, the FDA Commissioner published a WSJ oped “The FDA Liberates Women’s Hormone Replacement Therapy” (←gift link) and, with other FDA colleagues, a JAMA essay entitled “Updated Labeling for Menopausal
Dr. Susan Monarez was the first CDC Director to be confirmed by the Senate and served from July 31, 2025 – August 27, 2025. Because she refused to give approval to new vaccine recommendations without ever seeing them or
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Prof Shana Kelley is the Neena Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and President of the CZI Chicago Biohub, which brings together life scientists at Northwestern, Univers
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Helen Pearson
PhD, biomedical journalist at Nature
1 appearance on this show
Joanna Stern
author of "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything" · Wall Street Journal
1 appearance on this show
Ed Yong
1 appearance on this show
Sebastian Mallaby
author of "The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence" · Council on Foreign Relations
1 appearance on this show
Trisha Pasricha
physician, researcher, medical journalist and author of "You've Been Pooping All Wrong" · Harvard
1 appearance on this show
Adrian
student author · Sticks & Woods
1 appearance on this show
Robert Wachter
Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine · University of California, San Francisco
1 appearance on this show
Eric Topol
MD, cardiologist, scientist, bestselling author of Super Agers · Scripps Research Translational Institute
5 appearances on this show
Dr. Kevin Tracey
Neurosurgeon and Author of The Great Nerve · Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
1 appearance on this show
Dan Buettner
National Geographic explorer, Emmy Award-winning producer, New York Times best-selling author · National Geographic
1 appearance on this show
Matthew Cobb
professor of zoology at the University of Manchester · University of Manchester
1 appearance on this show
Seth Berkley
epidemiologist and global health leader · Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
1 appearance on this show
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