Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show

Send us Fan Mail What if the next breakthrough in diabetes treatment isn't necessarily a new drug molecule, but a better way to deliver the drugs we already have? One biotechnology company is developing a platform...

Send us Fan Mail Cancer medicine is advancing rapidly. But are patients getting the tests and treatments they need to benefit from those advances? Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, is one of the most common forms of...

Send us Fan Mail The brain is one of the most complex systems in biology, and understanding it requires more than a picture of its anatomy. We need to understand its connections, activity, and response to injury. Today...

Send us Fan Mail We usually assume that before we can use electricity somewhere, we need to build the infrastructure to deliver it. But what if we could bring the energy infrastructure to the location instead? That's...

Send us Fan Mail A drug can look promising in the laboratory and still fail when it reaches human testing. One of the biggest challenges in drug development is predicting what a compound will actually do inside the...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your ADHD medication wears off, but your day isn't over? Homework, family responsibilities, relationships, and everything else still demand your attention. So why are we still thinking...

Send us Fan Mail What if a promising drug fails a clinical trial not because the drug doesn't work, but because it works for a subset of patients whose response gets lost in the averages? What if AI could help us find...

Send us Fan Mail We've been automating laboratories for decades. Robots can pipette, instruments can run assays, and computers can analyze enormous datasets. But that's not necessarily an autonomous laboratory. The...

Send us Fan Mail Cancer treatment can save a patient's life - but what happens when the treatment itself leaves them struggling with pain, fatigue, weakness, limited mobility, or other lasting physical effects? Cancer...

Send us Fan Mail We have some of the most powerful AI systems in history - but what if one of the biggest obstacles to using AI to solve biology isn't the algorithms? What if it's the data? There are enormous amounts of...

Send us Fan Mail What if we could look inside the breast without X-rays, without compression, and without injecting a contrast agent - and instead use sound to create a three-dimensional map of the tissue? Dr. Raluca...

Send us Fan Mail There are tens of millions of Americans quietly caring for a parent, spouse, child or loved one - often while trying to maintain a career and a normal life. Yet much of that work is essentially...

Send us Fan Mail Your face can now be turned into a mathematical representation, searched against enormous databases, and potentially matched in fractions of a second. But what happens when AI moves beyond recognizing...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine walking into a major hotel or casino and discovering that the building already has a workforce you barely notice. Robots are cleaning floors, navigating around people, responding to changing...

Send us Fan Mail We've made extraordinary progress against breast cancer - better screening, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, antibody-drug conjugates and increasingly sophisticated molecular profiling. But one...