Cancer Immunotherapies
From Magic Bullets to Super T Cells: Immunotherapy encompasses multiple approaches, including harnessing or enhancing immune cells, hormones...
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This podcast series brings forth recent breakthroughs in biomedical research, their importance to society, and scientific discoveries on the brink of clinical application.
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13 episodesLiquid Biopsies: A New Way to Diagnose, Understand & Track Cancer
Liquid Biopsy is a new technology developed to advance cancer treatment. By using this innovative approach, physicians can enhance their abi...
Secrets of the Human Brain Revealed: Development, Disease & the Zika Virus
Transmission of the Zika virus throughout South and Central America has become a rising global public health threat. Spread mainly through i...
3D Bioprinting: A New Dimension in Tissue Engineering
In 1984, Charles Hull patented a process he called “stereolithography.” Now called three-dimensional (3D) printing, this technology has been...
Regenerative Medicine: Advances from the Convergence of Biology & Engineering
Throughout history, medical experts have dreamed of healing untreatable wounds, replacing a disfiguring scar with healthy skin, growing repl...
Vaccines: Essential Weapons in the Fight Against Disease
Just a generation ago, one out of five children in the United States died before reaching adulthood. Repeated epidemics swept through the wo...
Spying on Cancer with PET Scans
The ability to peer inside the body non-invasively has revolutionized modern medicine. With positron emission tomography (PET), physicians c...
Organs-on-a-chip: The Future of Drug Development and Study of Disease
Imagine if, before you ever took a drug, doctors could predict which drug would work best for you, because they already had information on h...
Optogenetics: Illuminating the Brain
Imagine being able to treat and control debilitating neurological disorders with a flash of light! The emerging field of optogenetics repres...
Conquering Pain and Infection with Drugs from Nature's Medicine Cabinet
Seventy percent of our drugs for pain and infection are either derived from or inspired by natural products of rainforests and other ecosyst...
Conquering Cancer with Drugs from Nature's Medicine Cabinet
Despite a four-decade “war on cancer,” this year, 1.5 million Americans will be diagnosed with a form of this broad group of diseases, and a...
The Human Microbiome: Your Own Personal Ecosystem
For more than three hundred years, scientists have observed, identified, and implicated individual microorganisms in specific diseases. More...
CRISPR/Cas Gene Editing: Borrowing Tools from Bacteria
CRISPR/CAS GENE EDITING has been called the biggest biotechnology discovery of the century, even though the 21st century is less than two de...