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Focusing on leukemia as an example, Pat Brown tells us how changes in the DNA sequence of a gene can resul…

Pat Brown talks about his path to becoming a physician and scientist, the importance of a bench-to-bedside-back-to-bench approach in drug development, and targeted cancer therapy. Using his work in l…

Focusing on leukemia as an example, Pat Brown tells us how changes in the DNA sequence of a gene can result in cancer. This connects to one of the Next Generation High School Science Standards in Lif…

Naomi Oppenheimer and Matan Yah Ben Zion talk about their path to becoming physicists and their latest work — a look at the diffusion of a substance made of repulsive particles. 

Most often when high …

Season 2, Episode #4. 

In this mini episode, Naomi Oppenheimer and Matan Yah Ben Zion talk about their path to becoming physicists and their latest work — a look at the diffusion of a substance made o…

Our guest today is Dr. Leo Otterbein, a professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Leo’s research group focuses on the role of carbon monoxide as a thera…

Season 2, Episode #2. 

Dr. Dan Hatfield is a senior public health researcher at FHI360 with 15 years of experience developing, evaluating, and replicating community and behavioral interventions promot…

Season 2, Episode #1. 

Mike Shelley is an applied mathematician who uses modeling and simulation to better understand the physics and biology of complex systems. He is the director of the Center for C…

In this episode, I give a quick summary of the interview with Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave Daly that aired on Science Fare on Monday, June 17, 2024. Christie and Jody are the founders…

In this episode of Science Fare, I interview Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave-Daly, founders of the Fed is Best Foundation and authors, along with Lynnette Hafken, of the forthcoming book…

Lisa Ammirati, high school science teacher and chair of the science department at Abington Friends School talks to us about her career as a science teacher and strategies to integrate classroom curri…

Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robust and flexi…

Episode #8.

Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robus…

At the halfway point of Season One of the Science Fare podcast, let’s have a listen to this special High School Science highlights episode — a collection of clips from previous episodes when the scie…

Part 2 of the conversation with Kelly Knudson, professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and director of the Center for Bioarchaeologic…

Episode #5.

Kelly Knudson, professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and the A…

Part 2 of the conversation with Jamie Morton, scientist and founder of Gutsy Analytics, who talks about his June 2023 paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled, “Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axi…

Jamie Morton, scientist and founder of Gutsy Analytics, talks about his June 2023 paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled, “Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-ass…

Here is Part 2 of the conversation with Hashim Al-Hashimi, professor of biochemistry and molecular physics at Columbia University, who talks about his March 2023 paper in the Proceedings of the Natio…