Mendelspod Podcast
The 21st is the Century of Biology. A radical advancement in the knowledge of basic biology and human disease is transforming our world. We interview the heroes beneath the headlines.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 505
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
The Coronavirus, A Year On with Carl Zimmer
It’s been a year since the coronavirus breached American shores. Here to look back with some perspective is New York Times science writer, Carl Zimmer. Carl has authored thirteen books on science, in…
00:38:12 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Spatial Biology Enables The Cancer Immunome Project
We’ve all heard of and perhaps worked with data from The Cancer Atlas Project. Now, with the help of new spatial biology tools, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are developing what they call The Cance…
00:37:48 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
The CRISPR Saga with Kevin Davies
A discovery here. A paper there. An important paper gets passed over. A fortuitous encounter in a coffee shop among two ambitious scientists. A yogurt company just being a yogurt company. Science mov…
01:00:25 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
PacBio’s Never Been Stronger: New CEO, Christian Henry, Shares His Vision
At the beginning of the year, we were all holding our breath for the future of PacBio. And by all, I mean all. It seems everyone has been rooting for this sequencing technology company.
And why? It…
And why? It…
00:39:35 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Keith Robison on the State of Sequencing: 2020 Edition
We speak directly with the Oracle today. It's Keith Robison, blogger at Omics Omics. Your All Knowingness, we ask, what has happened in the world of sequencing technology this year?
“The companies …
“The companies …
00:58:14 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Halloween with Nathan and Laura: The Spooky and Creepy of Genomics
Our October Review show is a Halloween special this year. Join us around the campfire amidst the sounds of howling wolves as Nathan, Laura, and Count Theracula recall some of their creepiest and spo…
00:59:24 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
When and Why Whole Genome Sequencing Should Be Standard of Care: Stephen Kingsmore of Rady Children’s
There’s an urgency about Stephen Kingsmore. Which is not to say he’s in a rush.
He’s the CEO of the Rady’s Children’s Genomics Institute. He and his team have two world records to their name for the…
He’s the CEO of the Rady’s Children’s Genomics Institute. He and his team have two world records to their name for the…
00:37:41 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Limited Genetic Diversity Affects Us All
Diversity’s in the news these days. It's not just political correctness. Let’s look deeper into our field at how limited diversity in genetics is affecting all of us.
If you are a member of a minority…
If you are a member of a minority…
00:33:10 |
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Genomics England Making Significant Strides in System Built on Trust in NHS
“In an era where we look at these surveys about trust and everything’s going off the cliff, everyone still trusts the NHS. It’s so deep in the British psyche."
This is a public episode. If you'd li…
This is a public episode. If you'd li…
00:41:05 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
September 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Vaccine Choice, Dwarfism, Research Volunteerism
We take a deep dive into a core genomics question that is somewhat philosophical today: “what is a disease, or disability?” This month we heard about a new experimental drug for dwarfism called vosor…
00:54:58 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
Bob Nussbaum on the State of Genetic Testing: 2020 Edition
From a career at NIH where he was Chief of the Genetic Disease Branch to academic Chief of Medical Genetics at UCSF to his current business title of Chief Medical Officer at InVitae, Bob Nussbaum has…
00:35:16 |
Tue 22 Sep 2020
SynBioBeta 2020 with John Cumbers
Synthetic biology was surging like perhaps no other bio-based industry when the pandemic struck, and it has had some unique weapons in its arsenal for aiding in the fight against COVID. There are the…
00:32:56 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Mapping Intracellular Context: Garry Nolan on Spatial Biology
First it was all about biomarkers. Then panels of biomarkers. But biology is complicated. Why does one patient respond to an immuno therapy when another which shares the same biomarker does not?
Welco…
Welco…
00:29:58 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
August 2020 Review: Radical Shift on LDT Policy, First Pan-Cancer Liquid Biopsies, and New Alzheimer’s Test
After a long break, the world's first genomics pundits are back for the season. And they are calm and collected in the face of the strorm on Pennsylvania Ave. We're sixty days from an election. H…
00:44:56 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
Using CRISPR Genome Editing Tools, Willow Biosciences out with First Synthetic Cannabinoid
We see this new ingredient appearing advertised and in products everywhere. On the billboards, in the new shops next to our favorite restaurant, on the counters at the barbershop and when we pick up…
00:27:03 |
Wed 26 Aug 2020
The Pros and Cons of Expanded Carrier Screening with Mary Norton, UCSF
Mary Norton is a perinatologist and clinical geneticist at UCSF who says that in the age when we are diagnosing ever more rare diseases, adding to the carrier screening panel can be a good thing, but…
00:29:14 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Is This A Unique Time for Science? We Ask Sci-fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
Has this pandemic presented a unique moment for science in our history? Or is it just a strange and temporary moment of science fiction? Or both?
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars Trilogy, …
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars Trilogy, …
00:47:41 |
Sat 13 Jun 2020
May 2020 with Nathan and Laura: Vaccine News, Notre Dame Argument, COVID Genetic Targets
Happy summertime! We had positive news this month about an mRNA vaccine from Moderna. We also saw how during a pandemic, the process of science is especially abnormal. Nathan says let's be happy abou…
00:55:19 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
Matt Loose on "Read Until" or Adaptive Sequencing
Back before the world turned upside down, you know, all those years ago--early this February--a paper popped up on bioRxiv called, “Nanopore adaptive sequencing for mixed samples, whole exome captur…
00:36:12 |
Thu 28 May 2020
The Current State of Coronavirus Vaccines with Jeff Stein, Cidara Therapeutics
What is the key to getting a coronavirus vaccine? “Manufacturing,” says today’s guest, Jeff Stein of Cidara Therapeutics.
Jeff joined us just last fall to talk about his company’s exciting new techno…
Jeff joined us just last fall to talk about his company’s exciting new techno…
00:33:11 |
Thu 21 May 2020
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