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Harvard Medical Labcast

Harvard Medical School

HMS scientists tackle a variety of important questions, ranging from how your neurons work to which genes play a role in particular diseases. Our podcast gives you the scoop on some of this...

Harvard Medical Labcast Podcast Guide

Listen to Harvard Medical Labcast, a Science & Medicine podcast by Harvard Medical School. Stream 42 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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On Cancer's Case

As a teenager, Joan Brugge expected to become a math teacher. Then her sister developed a fatal brain tumor, and Brugge shifted to devote he...

00:29:14Aug 25, 2020

Road Less Traveled

Note: This interview was recorded in 2019. For updates on Sequist's work during the COVID-19 pandemic, read our new Q&A . Traveling between...

00:32:38May 5, 2020

Neither Dazed nor Confused

Note: This interview was recorded in 2019. For updates on Inouye's work during the coronavirus pandemic and the link between COVID-19 and de...

00:39:16Apr 23, 2020

From Harvard to Hollywood

Neal Baer is an award-winning television writer and producer—and a Harvard Medical School-trained pediatrician (MD ’96). Through his pioneer...

00:44:06Jan 19, 2018

Chew on This

Dentists take care of our mouths, and doctors take care of the rest of us—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that oral health and overall...

00:20:38Feb 24, 2017

Blunt Scrutiny

Staci Gruber , HMS associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital, descri...

00:23:28Oct 21, 2016

Challenging Common Knowledge

Economist and physician Anupam “Bapu” Jena , the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at HMS, analyzes compelling heal...

00:26:50Aug 12, 2016

Connecting the Dots

Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, shares some of...

00:21:01Jun 22, 2016

Culture Clash

Joseph Betancourt , HMS associate professor of medicine, shares stories about the challenges of cross-cultural communication in health care,...

00:18:00Apr 8, 2016

Genetics in Space

Ting Wu , HMS professor of genetics, talks about ways scientists are striving to optimize astronauts' physical and mental health—and anticip...

00:24:57Feb 2, 2016

The A-Word

Reisa Sperling , HMS professor of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, shares her family's personal connection with Alzheimer's diseas...

00:18:48Oct 27, 2015

Genetics of Sleep

Dragana Rogulja, assistant professor of neurobiology at HMS, runs a sleep lab in which hundreds of thousands of fruit flies are studied as t...

00:19:15Sep 23, 2015

Object Lessons

Dominic Hall, curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum in the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medici...

00:23:41Aug 21, 2015

Rx: Poetry

Physician and poet Rafael Campo describes how medicine and poetry are interconnected at the most basic levels. According to this HMS associa...

00:26:16Jul 16, 2015

Medicine and Morality

Robert Truog , a Harvard Medical School professor at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the HMS Center for Bioethics , teaches docto...

00:21:19Jun 10, 2015

Your Digital Phenotype

John Brownstein , HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, explains why your most important Facebook friend migh...

00:15:55May 20, 2015

Digging into Ancient DNA

David Reich , professor of genetics at HMS, studies modern and ancient DNA to probe human history and learn about health and disease. In thi...

00:16:35Apr 15, 2015

The Future of Science

For many students and young researchers today, pursuing a career in science can seem more frightening than energizing. A wealth of qualified...

00:24:54Mar 15, 2015

The Methodical Adventurer

Amy Wagers, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard and Joslin Diabetes Center, is motivated by both the prospect of trea...

00:07:21Apr 29, 2013

Psychosocial Healing

Plastic surgeon Sumner Slavin has pioneered methods of tissue reconstruction for patients—including women with breast cancer—to restore body...

00:10:04Nov 12, 2012