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
Cardiologists Love Genomics: Euan Ashley, Stanford
Euan Ashley is one of the big names in genomic medicine that has been missing from our guest list. We’re happy to correct that today.
In 2010, he led the team who did the first clinical interpretatio…
In 2010, he led the team who did the first clinical interpretatio…
00:25:48 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Scientists vs Trump: January 2017 with Nathan and Laura
As we look back at January’s headlines with our two regular commentators, Nathan and Laura, the question becomes: How much should we ignore the fire raging across America to focus on the science?
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00:20:04 |
Thu 02 Feb 2017
Want to Stop Smoking? Start with Epigenetic Biomarker that Tells Doc the Truth
Why are there no viable psychiatric genetic tests, we ask today’s guest.
Rob Philibert is a geneticist and psychiatrist working at the University of Iowa. He admits at the outset of today’s interview…
Rob Philibert is a geneticist and psychiatrist working at the University of Iowa. He admits at the outset of today’s interview…
00:21:09 |
Tue 31 Jan 2017
When an Exome Test Is Part of the Therapy and Not a Diagnostic: John West on Personalis and Personalized Cancer Vaccines
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About six years ago there was a wave of genome interpretation startups getting their first rou…
About six years ago there was a wave of genome interpretation startups getting their first rou…
00:20:26 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017
People Told Us It Was Impossible: UCSC’s Mark Akeson on Nanopore Sequencing
Mark Akeson has been working on nanopore sequencing at UC Santa Cruz’s biophysics lab for twenty years. Up until the past few years with the launch of Oxford Nanopore’s sequencers, that work was most…
00:24:11 |
Wed 18 Jan 2017
When Long Reads are Double the Price of Short Reads, Short Reads Are Dead, Says Evan Eichler
Each year at this time, sequencing tools leader, Illumina, generates another round of sequencing buzz in the industry, this year by announcing the $100 genome is around the corner with their latest b…
00:28:24 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Genomics in 2016: Nathan and Laura Name Their Top Stories
From new CRISPR trials in humans to mitochondrial transfer therapy, from the spinout by Illumina of two new genomics health companies to the complete and utter failure of Theranos, from the approval …
00:25:18 |
Wed 28 Dec 2016
Hank Greely on “The End of Sex" and Other Stuff
Each year at this time we bring on a guest who is somewhat out of the way of our normal lineup, for example, a science fiction writer or a philosopher. Today Theral interviews a law professor who lo…
00:32:00 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
How to Scale Cancer Genomics, with Marco Marra, UBC
Back in 2009 at the annual AGBT meeting for sequencing, Marco Marra presented one of the first cases of cancer treatment using whole genome sequencing.
We caught up with Marco at his office at the Uni…
We caught up with Marco at his office at the Uni…
00:23:16 |
Tue 06 Dec 2016
What Does the Election Mean for Genomics? November 2016 with Nathan and Laura
While everyone is asking what will become of Obamacare, we ask our regular commentators, Nathan Pearson and Laura Hercher, specifically about genomics and medicine.
Nathan begins by saying that data s…
Nathan begins by saying that data s…
00:23:25 |
Thu 01 Dec 2016
The Saga Continues: Ethan Perlstein, Indie Scientist, Part 3
Today Ethan Perlstein joins us on the program for a third time. His path as a ‘rogue scientist’ has become a bit of a case study here at Mendelspod as we look into alternate paths for scientists and…
00:24:33 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Biomarker Panel to Predict Type 1 Diabetes
When we talk precision medicine on Mendelspod, we’re usually talking about oncology. But today we shift our focus to diabetes.
Raghu Mirmira is an MD PhD at Indiana University who is working on a pan…
Raghu Mirmira is an MD PhD at Indiana University who is working on a pan…
00:16:16 |
Thu 17 Nov 2016
Can You Name the World’s Largest Single Disease Research Charity?
Let’s take a break from the US and head over to the UK, home of the world’s largest single disease medical research charity.
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) raises five hundred million pounds a year for res…
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) raises five hundred million pounds a year for res…
00:23:47 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Why Diversity Is the Only Path Forward: Sarah Tishkoff on African Genomics
Are you lactose tolerant? If you’re of Northern European ancestry this is because of a stretch of DNA in a gene enhancer that developed some 9,000 years ago. That's the same time Northern Europeans…
00:29:29 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
October 2016 with Nathan and Laura
Today’s show was recorded on Halloween, which now feels so yesterday. Forgive us for some spookiness.
What doesn’t feel so yesterday is the launch this past month of Helix, a company spun out of Illu…
What doesn’t feel so yesterday is the launch this past month of Helix, a company spun out of Illu…
00:20:19 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
We’re Over Halfway There: Baylor's Richard Gibbs on Clinical Genetics
There’s a basic assumption in our field today that has been around for some time. We think of medicine as on a direct and even continuum with science. That discoveries in genomics, for example, wi…
00:27:01 |
Tue 25 Oct 2016
With FDA Guidance on LDTs Still Not Out, What Are Labs Doing?
As we get closer to the election and the end of 2016, the debate over LDT regulation has gone quiet. At this time last year, there was one hearing after another, first in the Senate, then in the Hou…
00:21:45 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Reference Genome Making Major Strides in Ethnic Diversity, Says Valerie Schneider, NCBI
A couple months back, we reported on a study showing that genetic tests for an inherited heart disorder were more likely to come back with false positive results for black Americans than for whites. …
00:24:46 |
Tue 11 Oct 2016
September 2016 with Nathan and Laura
There were many headlines this past week heralding the first three parent baby to be born. But in fact, as our commentators point out in today’s look back on last month’s genomics news, three parent…
00:22:17 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Luke Timmerman on His New Biography of Lee Hood
There is tons of life science journalism. Our coffee tables and inboxes fill up each week with that quarterly or that daily. We sift through headlines and product advertisements to assess what’s go…
00:24:11 |
Tue 27 Sep 2016
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