Latest Biomedical research Podcast Episodes
Tissue Chips: The Greatest Technology You've Never Heard Of
Amazing Things Podcast - June 01, 2020 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPrecision medicine will be available to everyone because of Tissue Chips. Hear the fascinating story of the most important technology you have never heard of before. In this episode of the Amazing Things Podcast, brought to you by United For Medical Research, we take you inside the Tissue Chip p...
Turning the Tide on Ebola
Amazing Things Podcast - February 04, 2020 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Ebola virus is a terrifying, rapidly fatal and until just recently untreatable disease with a mortality rate between 25% and 90%. We'll take you inside the scientific discovery and the public-private partnership that turned the tide on Ebola. Featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National...
Preventing Pandemic: How Ebola Prepared America for Coronavirus
Amazing Things Podcast - January 30, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Ebola virus is a terrifying, rapidly fatal and until just recently untreatable disease with a mortality rate between 25% and 90%. In this episode of the Amazing Things Podcast, we take you inside the scientific discovery and the public-private partnership that turned the tide on Ebola and he...
NIH Funding and the Economic Impact in Rural States
Amazing Things Podcast - March 28, 2019 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe importance of strong, sustainable annual funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is known to states with major biomedical R&D hubs like California, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas. In these states there is a clear link between the NIH-funded research that occurs there and...
Dr. Tyler Jacks - Cancer Research Pioneer | Highly Cited (Ep. 5)
Highly Cited - January 16, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHearing how one of the world’s leading researchers on genetically engineered mouse models rises to success from his or her beginnings is a valuable experience for anyone pursuing the path of biomedical research. Transnetyx CEO, Bob Bean, sits down and interviews individuals impacting the world o...
Dr. Brandon Cox - Pursuit of Restoring Hearing Function
Highly Cited - December 04, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Brandon Cox, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University. Her research is focused on hearing loss and regeneration of hair cells (or sound sensing cells) in the inner ear. Listen along as Brandon shares her passion for education at an early age, how she developed an am...
Dr. Karl-Dimiter Bissig - Ping Pong Beginnings to Chimeric Livers | Highly Cited (Ep. 3)
Highly Cited - October 16, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Karl-Dimiter Bissig, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Better known as "Dimi," his lab focuses on all things surrounding liver research. From liver cancer to viral hepatitis to metabolic liver disorders, he is passionate about discovery and keeping a minds...
A discussion with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins
Amazing Things Podcast - October 15, 2018 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA discussion with National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins covering the new All of Us Research program, NIH’s work to combat the opioid epidemic, and advances like gene editing and cancer immunotherapy that are changing how we treat disease.
UBS Cerebral Bootcamp Episode 3: The Replication Crisis and Much, Much More
Unbreaking Science with Dr. Jack - September 29, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsUBS Bootcamp Episode 3. Publication Bias and Levels of Evidence. Find out why meta-scientists say that most published studies are wrong, why the Replication Crisis exists, why "significance" is not the only valuable outcome of studies, and why replication "success" is not the only type of success...
Dr. Steve Ramirez - Real-Life Inception | Highly Cited (Ep. 2)
Highly Cited - September 27, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Steve Ramirez, Ph.D, is a neuroscientist at Boston University. Known for being an eternal optimist, Steve recalls his childhood and parents being a pivotal part of his hard work ethic and gritty, positive spirit. He shares his beginnings in science, big moments in his young career he vividly ...
UBS Cerebral Bootcamp Episode 2: Is Science Broken?
Unbreaking Science with Dr. Jack - September 20, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn this 1 1/2 hour-long episode, Dr. Jack reviews stunning messages from three editors of major medical journals and introduces the work of Dr. John Ionnidis and others who say that most the published results in the scientific literature is expected to be wrong. Learn why and reviews the evidenc...
Dr. Christine Chio - The Currency of Inspiration | Highly Cited (Ep. 1)
Highly Cited - September 18, 2018 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Christine Chio, PhD, is an assistant professor at Columbia University. She studies pancreatic cancer and received her PhD from the University of Toronto. In this first episode of Highly Cited, we learn how Christine's love for science started at a young age, how an influential person inspir...
Highly Cited - Trailer | Highly Cited (Ep. 0)
Highly Cited - September 18, 2018 05:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this trailer episode of Highly Cited Podcast, our host, Bob Bean, shares why this podcast was started and what he hopes to deliver with each interview episode. Highly Cited Podcast will interview amazing individuals in the field of life science research as they share their stories and philoso...
Sen. Roy Blunt: Medical Research is a National Priority
Amazing Things Podcast - September 17, 2018 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAmazing Things Podcast: Newsmaker Edition. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri is responsible for delivery four consecutive years of increased federal funding for biomedical research to the National Institutes of Health. Sen. Blunt, Chairman of the Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, spe...
UBS Cerebral Bootcamp #1 - What is Science?
Unbreaking Science with Dr. Jack - September 16, 2018 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIntro to the Show! What is Science? How can the public tell Science from "Science-Like Activities?" What was Popper's "Demarcation"? Subjective Belief vs. The Quest for Knowledge. Hypothetico-deductivism. David Hume's types of knowledge. Positivism. Constructivism vs. Objectivity: Do We Create o...
Rep. Tom Cole: NIH Budget Has To Grow
Amazing Things Podcast - July 11, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAmazing Things Podcast: Newsmaker Edition.Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole is a dedicated leader in the fight in Washington D.C. for sustained increases in federal funding for biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health. U.S. Rep. Cole, Chairman of the House Labor-HHS Appropriatio...
Jean Bennett: A Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Amazing Things Podcast - March 05, 2018 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHear the story of the first gene therapy approved in the United States to target a disease caused by mutations in a specific gene. In this case, the RPE65 gene, which affects vision. For Dr. Jean Bennett, the physician scientist behind this medical breakthrough, being able to change the prognosis...
Amazing Things Podcast LIVE Congressional Briefing
Amazing Things Podcast - November 15, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA special live episode of UMR's Amazing Things Podcast broadcast from Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Host Adam Belmar is joined by four NIH-funded scientists: Dr. Ed Damiano of Boston University, Dr. Natalia Trayanova of Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Vadim Back...
Li-Huei Tsai: A Ray of Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
Amazing Things Podcast - August 11, 2017 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe statistics on Alzheimer’s disease are daunting. More than five million Americans are living with the disease and by 2050 this number could be as high as 16 million. Dr. Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, and her team of researchers have discovered that LED lights, flic...
Natalia Trayanova: Using a Personalized, Virtual Heart to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death
Amazing Things Podcast - May 22, 2017 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMore than 350,000 people each year will experience an out of hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is an extremely dangerous circumstance that requires immediate treatment. In cardiac arrest, death results when the heart suddenly stops working properly. This may be caused by abnormal, or irregu...
William Fissell: Giving Kidney Patients Their Quality of Life Back
Amazing Things Podcast - March 06, 2017 05:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMore than 460,000 Americans have end stage renal disease. While transplant of a human kidney is the best treatment for kidney failure, there simply aren’t enough donor kidneys to go around, leaving the vast majority of these patients tied to dialysis machines for the rest of their lives.Every day...
Amy Wagers: Repairing Genes That Cause Muscular Dystrophy
Amazing Things Podcast - January 09, 2017 05:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThousands of diseases are rooted in our genes, occurring when something goes wrong during cell multiplication and causes a mutation in the gene’s DNA sequence. This is why researchers the world over heralded the 2012 revelation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a groundbreaking tool for editing faulty ...
Vadim Backman: Detecting Cancer at its Earliest Stages
Amazing Things Podcast - November 14, 2016 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat if you could detect cancer at its earliest stages – before there are any symptoms that would send you to a doctor? What if such a diagnostic tool existed and it was low-cost, minimally invasive and easy to use? The impact would be huge.Northwestern University professor of bioengineering and ...
Ed Damiano: A Father’s Mission to Develop a Bionic Pancreas
Amazing Things Podcast - October 17, 2016 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFor the 1.25 million American adults and children with type 1 diabetes, managing blood-sugar levels is a 24/7 affair that involves sticking their fingers many times a day and either manually injecting insulin as needed or wearing an insulin pump.Blood glucose management is an inexact science, wit...
Samuel Achilefu: Taking the Guesswork Out of Cancer Surgery
Amazing Things Podcast - September 12, 2016 04:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 2016, nearly 1.7 million people in the United States alone will be diagnosed with cancer. For many of these people, treatment will involve surgery to remove the cancer.However, because it’s very difficult for the naked eye to distinguish between normal tissue and cancerous tissue, standard pro...
TRAILER: Amazing Things Podcast
Amazing Things Podcast - September 06, 2016 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAmerica’s investment in medical research through the National Institutes of Health is making amazing things possible, from the development of the first universal early cancer screening test to the creation of a bio-artificial kidney, a bionic pancreas, and a system to allow surgeons to see cancer...