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
- 503
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
The Bioengineered Hangover Cure: Changing the Conversation around GMOs with Zack Abbott of ZBiotics
Our goal with today’s show was twofold: bring you a practical holiday gift idea and to take you into the world of a synthetic biology entrepreneur. Our guest: Zack Abbott, CEO of ZBiotics.
Zack is …
Zack is …
00:40:32 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Lance Baldo of Freenome on their Approach to Early Cancer Detection
When excitement around early cancer detection first surfaced, we heard about the “pan-cancer” test that would look for any and all cancers, and early. Now that we’re some years into it, the approach…
00:39:22 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
Mara Aspinall on COVID
Winter is here. In America, we're just back from the Thanksgiving holiday when many of us travel and get together. And so far there is no great COVID surge this year.
Or is there?
Today's guest says…
Or is there?
Today's guest says…
00:34:30 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Terry Lo of Vizgen on Spatial Genomics
Today spatial biology company, Vizgen, makes their debut on on the program.
When Vizgen CEO Terry Lo was first involved in developing what we now call spatial biology at Perkin Elmer, he admits that h…
When Vizgen CEO Terry Lo was first involved in developing what we now call spatial biology at Perkin Elmer, he admits that h…
00:44:25 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
Proteomics at Scale Empowers Genomics in New Ways: Dale Yuzuki, Olink
It’s the age of multi omics. Or multi comics, if you don't catch spell check. A few weeks ago at the annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics, we were pleased to find not only geno…
00:52:31 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
A New Tool in the Genomics Kit with Ivan Liachko of Phase Genomics
Have you ever heard of proximity ligation? We knew of it in research form back in the day, but not that it had been commercialized until this summer. It’s not every day we come across a powerful …
00:35:46 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Paul Kruszka of GeneDx/Sema4 on Groundbreaking Newborn Sequencing Study
Last week, during the first International Conference on Newborn Sequencing, a landmark study to sequence the genomes of 100,000 newborns was announced. Called the GUARDIAN study, the project is the …
00:34:42 |
Sun 13 Nov 2022
Is PGx Having a Moment? Kristine Ashcraft, Invitae
Pharmacogenomic testing, or PGx, is considered low-hanging fruit, a no-brainer for the application of genetic testing in the clinic. And some may think it is small fruit. Not so, says today’s gues…
00:33:43 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Christian Henry on Revio, Onso and the New Vision at PacBio
Last week with a crowd of 1,200 customers in a Los Angeles nightclub, sequencing company Pacific Bioscience launched two new sequencers, both long and short read, Revio and Onso. It was a night of g…
00:36:41 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
The Revolution in Single Molecule Sequencing Continues: Vijay Ramani, UCSF
A new generation of biologists is pushing the limits of third-generation sequencing, furthering the technology's development and defining new applications to answer biology’s most pressing questions.
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00:41:46 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Will Hwang of Mass General on Discovery of Novel Pancreatic Cancer Cell Subtype
In our age of specialization, today’s guest, Dr. Will Hwang of Massachusetts General, went against the trend and received three bachelor degrees in different fields.
Or is this the new trend?
Will says…
Or is this the new trend?
Will says…
00:47:28 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Going Beyond Time Barriers: Arutha Kulasinghe on the Power of New Spatial Biology Tools
Arutha Kulasinghe was pumped for the AGBT (Advances in Genome Biology and Technology) Conference this year. He is the Principal Investigator for the Clinical-oMx Lab at the University of Queensland.…
00:31:41 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Invitae’s Data Manager, Farid Vij, on New Genome Management Platform
One thinks of Invitae as a leading genetic testing company that has worked to improve clinical quality while bringing prices down. And they are, and they have. But after listening to today's show, …
00:44:03 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
Satellite Bio out with a New Tissue Based Approach to Regenerative Medicine
Satellite Bio is named descriptively for the way its platform works. Out of stealth in the past few months with what you might call a middle ground approach to generative medicine between stem cell …
00:24:20 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
We Have to Get Sequencing Back to Moore’s Law: Gilad Almogy, Ultima Genomics
There was a tweet thread at the end of the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference where researchers took a moment of silence for all the sequencing companies that have ann…
00:41:32 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
RNA Therapeutics: A New Paradigm for Drug Development? Tim Mercer, BASE Lab, U of Queensland
Has the pandemic unleashed the molecule of RNA to be the new future of drug development?
Tim Mercer is the Director of the BASE Lab at the University of Queensland which has recently become one of Aus…
Tim Mercer is the Director of the BASE Lab at the University of Queensland which has recently become one of Aus…
00:35:33 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
The System is Working. We Need More Engagement, Says ClinVar Champion Heidi Rehm of Mass General in Her Update on the State of Genomic Medicine in 2022
Heidi Rehm’s talents for genomics are legendary. Our field has devoured them like a hungry beast.
Discovering an appreciation for the natural logic of genetics in her early school years, Heidi would …
Discovering an appreciation for the natural logic of genetics in her early school years, Heidi would …
00:54:08 |
Thu 09 Jun 2022
The Promise of Exosomes Now Realized, Says Paul Billings, CEO, Biological Dynamics
The area of early cancer detection continues to become ever more exciting these days. Each month more companies add liquid biopsies to their product offering as new technologies advance and are able …
00:41:42 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
Lee Cronin on Origin of Life, Genomics, Aliens and More
While we’re able to sit outside on a warm summer’s night under the ocean of stars, let us contemplate some of the bigger questions. We’re very excited to start out our twelfth season of the podcast w…
00:58:41 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
Eric Green on the Future of the NHGRI
Dr. Eric Green has been the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2009. Two years ago, he and his colleagues at the Instit…
00:50:19 |
Sat 28 May 2022
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