Tissue Chips: The Greatest Technology You've Never Heard Of
Precision medicine will be available to everyone because of Tissue Chips. Hear the fascinating story of the most important technology you ha...
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Amazing Things Podcast
Meet the leaders of today’s scientific revolution, and discover the new technologies allowing scientists to understand and treat disease, improve health, and overcome impossible odds. Today,...
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16 episodesPreventing Pandemic: How Ebola Prepared America for Coronavirus
The Ebola virus is a terrifying, rapidly fatal and until just recently untreatable disease with a mortality rate between 25% and 90%. In thi...
NIH Funding and the Economic Impact in Rural States
The importance of strong, sustainable annual funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is known to states with major biomedical R&...
A discussion with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins
A discussion with National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins covering the new All of Us Research program, NIH’s work to comb...
Sen. Roy Blunt: Medical Research is a National Priority
Amazing Things Podcast: Newsmaker Edition. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri is responsible for delivery four consecutive years of increase...
Rep. Tom Cole: NIH Budget Has To Grow
Amazing Things Podcast: Newsmaker Edition.Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole is a dedicated leader in the fight in Washington D.C. for sustained...
Jean Bennett: A Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Hear the story of the first gene therapy approved in the United States to target a disease caused by mutations in a specific gene. In this c...
Amazing Things Podcast LIVE Congressional Briefing
A special live episode of UMR's Amazing Things Podcast broadcast from Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on Wednesday, November 15, 2017....
Li-Huei Tsai: A Ray of Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
The statistics on Alzheimer’s disease are daunting. More than five million Americans are living with the disease and by 2050 this number cou...
Natalia Trayanova: Using a Personalized, Virtual Heart to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death
More than 350,000 people each year will experience an out of hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is an extremely dangerous circumstance...
William Fissell: Giving Kidney Patients Their Quality of Life Back
More than 460,000 Americans have end stage renal disease. While transplant of a human kidney is the best treatment for kidney failure, there...
Amy Wagers: Repairing Genes That Cause Muscular Dystrophy
Thousands of diseases are rooted in our genes, occurring when something goes wrong during cell multiplication and causes a mutation in the g...
Vadim Backman: Detecting Cancer at its Earliest Stages
What if you could detect cancer at its earliest stages – before there are any symptoms that would send you to a doctor? What if such a diagn...
Ed Damiano: A Father’s Mission to Develop a Bionic Pancreas
For the 1.25 million American adults and children with type 1 diabetes, managing blood-sugar levels is a 24/7 affair that involves sticking...
Samuel Achilefu: Taking the Guesswork Out of Cancer Surgery
In 2016, nearly 1.7 million people in the United States alone will be diagnosed with cancer. For many of these people, treatment will involv...
TRAILER: Amazing Things Podcast
America’s investment in medical research through the National Institutes of Health is making amazing things possible, from the development o...