TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with The Economist's Digital Editor, TOM STANDAGE, about the centuries-old tradition of Social Media.Then on BioTech Nation, on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's all about "rare science."

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ESPN investigative journalist Mark Fainaru-Wada , the author of League of Denial … The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary. Then on BioTech Nation, progress for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe with Chris Garabedian, the CEO of Surepta Therapeutics.And on BiosIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's possible to beam me up, Scotty – only this time it’s your DNA.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with RUTH DEFRIES , a MacArthur Winner and author of “The Big Ratchet – How Humanity Survives in the Face of Natural Crisis, a biography of an ingenious species”.Then on BioTech Nation, moving breakthrough science to viable medicines in many fields from colorectal cancer to antibiotics resistance. Moira speaks with Dr. Tom Gibbs, Director of DebioPharm from Lausanne, Switzerland.And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, new data just in - the surprising differences in the costs of medical procedures from one town to the next.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist CHRISTINE KENNEALLY about “The Invisible History of the Human Race – How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.”Then on BioTech Nation, an important breakthrough in studying human disease – DR. BRIAN WAMHOFF, a co-founder and head of R&D at Hemoshear, tells us about their technology which enables the study of humans never before possible. Then on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, David gives us the new “number” - how much it costs to develop a new drug - you’ll likely be shocked.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON, the author of “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” It took the hands of many to create all the technology we use every day.Then on BioTech Nation, Carnegie-Mellon’s ART BONI and Wharton’s STEVE SAMMUT talk about the annual Bioentrepreneurship Boot Camp. And for the crucial start-up funding necessary to all bioenterprise, we hear from DR. JAY LICHTER , a Venture Partner at Avalon Ventures.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former Harvard Business Review Executive Editor NICHOLAS CARR, the author of “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us”, about the effect of technology all around us.Then on BioTech Nation, an approach to screen for a wide host of diseases including cancer and diabetes, 5 years or more before symptoms appear. And improved cancer treatments, all because we can read the cancer’s DNA.Guests are DR. ARIF ANWAR, the Executive Director of Sengenics, and DR. CHUCK BAUM, the President and CEO, Mirati Therapeutics.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of esteemed professors, who will explain each of the 2014 Nobel prizes, and why they are important.Panel Convener LUDWIG CHINCARINI Professor, Finance and Economics, University of San FranciscoFor the prize in LITERATURE GENARO PADILLA Professor, English, UC BerkeleyFor the prize in PEACE STEPHEN ZUNES Professor, Politics, University of San FranciscoFor the ECONOMICS prize JOE FARRELL Professor, Economics, UC BerkeleyFor two prizes - in PHYSICS and in CHEMISTRY CONNIE CHANG professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC BerkeleyFor the prize in PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE JAI YU Neuroscientist, UCSF's Center for Integrative Neuroscience

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ALIX CHRISTIE about GUTENBERG'S APPRENTICE– like all technology, it turns out it was a team effort. Then on BioTech Nation, a virus hunter and a drug hunter. STAN ERCK, CEO of NovaVax, tells us how they create new vaccines to protect against RSV in very young children, and we speak with DR. PEARL HUANG about DISCOVERY PARTNERSHIPS (DPAc) AT GLAXOSMITHKLINE and how they seek out and support promising of university research scientists in the hunt for new drugs.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withADAM TANNER, a fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the author of “What Stays in Vegas – The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It.”Then on BioTech Nation, TODD SKRINAR , Principal for Life Sciences Advisory and Leader for Big Data Advanced Analytics at ERNST and YOUNG. All those clinical trials needed to prove a drug is safe? Big data and getting bigger.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, and a professor at psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center. He’s written “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.”Then on BioTech Nation, initial attempts at stem cell treatments for such different conditions as spinal cord injury, PMD and age-related macular degeneration begin to show promise.