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
April 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Ioannidis Scandal, Antibody Testing, Ethics Questions
Our commentators, Nathan Pearson of Root and Laura Hercher of Sarah Laurence College, join us to look back on month two of the first modern pandemic.
We begin with a scandal that rocked the Twitter sc…
We begin with a scandal that rocked the Twitter sc…
00:47:24 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Lab Director Speaks to the Challenges of COVID-19 Testing: Elaine Lyon, HudsonAlpha
Why have diagnostic tests for the Coronavirus been slow on the scene? What have been the challenges for lab directors? Were they scientific? Were they regulatory? Were they scaling challenges? A…
00:29:59 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
FDA in the Time of Coronavirus: Understanding the New VALID Act with Turna Ray, GenomeWeb
After the virus reached American shores, was the FDA quick enough to allow companies and labs to develop their own tests without restrictive oversight? The question sparked a sweeping new bill in co…
00:31:07 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
March 2020 Review with Nathan & Laura: Corona Gets Personal, Where Are the Tests?, the VALID Act, Some non-Corona Science
Laura comes to us from her flat in New York, Nathan is stuck in San Diego, but they are here and ready to discuss what a month ago was a warning and now is a full blown world crisis. What have they …
00:53:39 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
90% Go Undiagnosed, Says Geisinger’s Amy Sturm of FH Patients
More than one in two hundred people have an inherited form of heart disease. But most don’t know it.
Often on Mendelspod we talk about cancer genomics, but in the area of cardio, too, genetic testin…
Often on Mendelspod we talk about cancer genomics, but in the area of cardio, too, genetic testin…
00:35:20 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Lisa Alderson on Her Telegenetics Firm, Genome Medical, Also Speaks to the DTC Downturn
Lisa Alderson has been helping to build genetic testing companies for a while. In 2016 she co-founded her own company, Genome Medical, a tele-genomics firm to help patients and providers understand …
00:39:21 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
February 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Coronavirus, Medicare for All, and Live from AGBT
What do we actually know about the novel coronavirus, we ask our two monthly commentators at the outset of February’s review show. Then, speaking of pandemics, as Bernie fever sweeps America, we exp…
01:01:42 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Pouria Sanae on the DTC Slowdown and His New Precision Health Testing Platform
“To be fully honest, I think some of these tests are scary tests. I’ve had the luxury of testing myself . . . some of this needs to have the physician and the genetic counselor involved.”
That’s Pour…
That’s Pour…
00:24:41 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
January 2020 Review: Genetic Counselors vs ACMG, 23andMe Layoffs, Privacy
23andMe lays off over 100 employees. Illumina comes to the JP Morgan empty-handed. Has Precision Medicine seen it’s heyday already? Or are we gearing up for another wave of innovation? Nathan and…
00:50:15 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
End-of-Decade Review, What's Next? with Nathan and Laura
It's our special look back over the entire decade which has Nathan and Laura firing on all fours. Not only do we discover their genomic highlights of the last ten years--ups and downs-- they also pu…
01:07:42 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Ewan Birney on Race, UK Genomics
Our end-of-year special guest is one of the U.K.’s top genomicists, Ewan Birney, Co-Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute at EMBL. He is also the non-Executive Director for Genomics Engla…
00:50:21 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
November 2019 with Nathan and Laura: Happy Birthday CRISPR Babies, 23andMe for Embryo Selection, and Golden Rice, Almost
The gene edited babies, Lulu and Nana, turn one. Laura Hercher says it feels like it’s been five years. Nathan says, “Happy Birthday.”
Along with our genomics headline party this month, we also disc…
Along with our genomics headline party this month, we also disc…
00:50:47 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
Learning from the Field's Mistakes, Ancestry.com Rolls out Physician Ordered Health Testing
Just in time for Black Friday, Ancestry.com has launched new health testing. Thanksgiving week (the company calls the shopping holidays the “Turkey Five”) has been kind to what is the largest DNA …
00:32:44 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
The Gene Edited Babies Saga - A Year Later with Hank Greely
On November 25th, 2018, the world was shocked to find out a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had edited the germline of twin girls-and the twins had been born. Many in the scientific community remembe…
00:44:19 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Improving Quantitative Evidence for Genetic Tests: Carlos Araya, Invitae
Warning: the first part of this story can sound quite typical. Three co-founders with backgrounds in genomics and AI found a Stanford spinout. Their goal: to bring the tools of AI and computationa…
00:31:16 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
The Meteoric Rise of Twist Bioscience and the Wild Demand for DNA: Emily Leproust, CEO
In 2013 Twist Bioscience was a newcomer to a market that most of us thought was saturated, cornered, commoditized—that of synthetic DNA. But Emily Leproust and her co-founders saw something differen…
00:33:31 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
October 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Prime Editing, Vertex Win, and ASHG
Our Halloween show this year summarizing October’s genomics news has more tricks and treats than spooks and scares. It’s Nathan and Laura back to sift through a big month of happenings from the cool…
00:59:18 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Should We Increase Panel Testing for All Breast Cancer Patients?
It’s a hot question in the field today. Recently several studies arguing for increased testing for all breast cancer patients have been published in leading oncology journals.
Peter Beitsch is a brea…
Peter Beitsch is a brea…
00:42:56 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Genomics Going from a Passive to an Active Science: John Stuelpnagel on the “Write” Revolution
Not many people have had quite the same view on the genomics revolution as John Stuelpnagel. He co-founded Illumina, Ariosa, and Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia). And he’s the Chairman of Fabric, …
00:39:16 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
Why Isn’t Personalized Medicine Being Mentioned by the Presidential Contenders? Ed Abrahams on Drug Pricing, Genetic Testing, and the State of the Industry in 2019
Ed Abrahams has a message for Nancy Pelosi about HR 3. That’s the new bill in the House to reduce drug pricing.
Ed is the President of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, an advocacy organization in…
Ed is the President of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, an advocacy organization in…
00:36:23 |
Tue 15 Oct 2019
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