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
Quantitative Pathology with David Rimm, Yale
David Rimm, Professor of Pathology at Yale, was doing spatial biology since before it was called that. He’s known for counting. And he’s been going beyond—beneath?--the model of the cell in biology…
00:27:31 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
The State of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling at One of America’s Largest Health Systems with Carlo Bifulco
Carlo Bifulco joins us today. He’s an Italian who helped persuade one of America’s largest not-for-profit health systems that providing more genomic information to cancer patients early on was the r…
00:27:26 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Inside the World of Genome Engineering at Amyris with Kirsten Benjamin, VP of R&D
If a company knows genome engineering, that would be Emeryville based Amyris, the Bay Area's crown jewel for synthetic biology. Founded back in 2003, the company first worked on creating biofuels fr…
00:25:44 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
Clinical Genetics 2021 Highlights: Laura Hercher, Host of the Beagle Landed Podcast
Laura Hercher, host of our sister podcast, The Beagle Has Landed, joins us today to compare notes. Her gig is much more focused on the clinical side of genomics. Genetic counselors are her core audie…
00:39:51 |
Tue 21 Sep 2021
A New Way to Phenotype Life: Chris Mason Talks Spatial Biology, His New Book
Chris Mason, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and prolific genomics researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to talk about what he’s doing with the new generation of spatial biology tools…
00:30:24 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
The Impact of Spatial Technology on Childhood Cancers with David Steffin, Texas Children's
David Steffin is a cancer researcher and physician at Texas Children's whose particular focus is on pediatric cancers. He begins today’s program with some interesting numbers.
This is a public episod…
This is a public episod…
00:28:16 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Robert Green: Newborn Sequencing Is the Goal Here in the U.S.
"If you go to a scientific meeting, even with the greatest critics, and you ask, how many people in this audience believe that your entire genome will be part of your everyday medical care in fifty y…
00:37:06 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
The Studies Are In—Optical Mapping Can Replace Traditional Cytogenetics Tests
We’re all aware of the way that next gen sequencing has changed many tests in the clinical laboratory. But some testing has held stubbornly resistant to change. This has been the case in cytogeneti…
00:20:07 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Amy Sturm of Geisinger on FH Testing and New Implementation Science
"We have all of these evidence based tools and evidence based methods, but the problem is it can take upwards of 20 plus years to be truly implemented into care where healthcare providers are using t…
00:32:20 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Out of the Reductionist Trap: Brad Gray of NanoString on Spatial Biology
One of the hottest new trends in biomedical research today is what is known as spatial biology--the ability to capture tissues in a 3D context. It was named Method of the Year by Nature Magazine in 2…
00:27:46 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Precision Oncology at the Community Level with Lee Schwartzberg
When Lee Schwartzberg did his training as an oncologist some thirty years ago at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, he had a dream. And after training, he set off to make that dream a reality: to…
00:36:08 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Daniel Kraft on the Digitome and COVID
“The new drug is the engaged individual,” says today’s guest, Daniel Kraft.
Daniel is the founder of Exponential Medicine where he has championed digital health and the explosion of wearable technolog…
Daniel is the founder of Exponential Medicine where he has championed digital health and the explosion of wearable technolog…
00:32:55 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Orchid Health Is 1st in the World to Offer Whole Genome Couple's Report
First comes love, then comes marriage; then comes the genomic couple's report. Isn't that how the line goes?
Perhaps that's a how it will begin to go.
Today's guest is the founder of Orchid Health, wh…
Perhaps that's a how it will begin to go.
Today's guest is the founder of Orchid Health, wh…
00:37:41 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
PacBio and Labcorp Team Up on a Global Pan-Pathogen Surveillance Network
Will there be a fourth surge of COVID here in the U.S.? Already that we’re asking the question and it’s not an inevitability is a good sign. It’s become a race between vaccination clinics and viral…
00:32:23 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Will High Sensitivity Proteomics Enable a New Paradigm in Precision Health? with Kevin Hrusovsky, Quanterix
Kevin Hrusovosky’s career has been dedicated to transforming medicine from reactive “sick care” to preventative personalized care. A serial entrepreneur, he currently serves as the CEO of Quanterix,…
00:37:10 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
A Liquid Biopsy Technology that Doesn't Degrade the Sample: Raj Krishnan of Biological Dynamics
Raj Krishnan has a good story, and probably a good product. More data will tell. He's the CEO of Biological Dynamics, a new liquid biopsy company that is able to detect biomarkers in not only blood…
00:32:01 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
The Future of Big Biology: Bionano at AGBT
Mendelspod was live this week at AGBT 2021 where Theral interviewed CEO Erik Holmlin and CMO Alka Chaubey of Bionano Genomics on Tuesday. The topic was the future of big biology.
This is a public ep…
This is a public ep…
00:55:01 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Playing Catch Up--Viral Surveillance in the U.S. with Will Lee of Helix
How fast is the coronavirus mutating? Why is the U.K. variant, or B.1.1.7, more transmissible than original strains of the virus? Is viral surveillance the weak spot in the U.S.'s fight against th…
00:23:48 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
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
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