On this week’s Tech Nation, A broadcast from the international consumer technology show - CES 2016 – in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guests include JEFF JOSEPH, Senior Vice President of Communications of the Consumer Technology Association, SHIREEN YATES and SCOTT SUNDVOR, the co-founders of 6Sensor Labs and inventors of Nima - a mobile device that tests for gluten in your food, DR. THIBAUT SCHOLASCH from Fruition Sciences, who talks about technology in vineyards, and wine-growing in Napa Valley differs from the south of France, and LEO TROTTIER, CEO of CleverPet, about how his graduate work in cognitive science led to his invention of CleverPet.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with AMY WILKINSON, a lecturer at about Stanford University Business School about “The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs”

Then on BioTech Nation, JULIE PAPANEK, a Healthcare Investor with Canaan Partners in Menlo Park, talks about their tech and healthcare investments, what they are looking for, which ones do they fund and why. Included are quitting smoking and new approaches in the treatment of diabetes. Also, DR. MICHAEL BERELOWITZ, the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at Oramed Pharmaceuticals, talks about their work to avoid the need for injections in diabetes, juvenile hormone and more.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BRIAN SAGER, the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Omnity, a search engine – not based on keywords, but search in the context of entire documents. Google isn’t going away – but your need to find information is growing.

Then on BioTech Nation, the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Gunn speaks with DR. SEAN McCARTHY CEO of CytomX Therapeutics.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with … UC Santa Barbara professor MICHAEL GAZZANIGA tells us about both sides of our brains – in fact, there are many parts to our brains – not just a right hemisphere, and a left. Then on BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with PROFESSOR DAME SALLY DAVIES, the UK Government’s Senior Medical Advisor, and author of “The Drugs Don’t Work – A Global Threat.

On this week’s Tech Nation, with Dr Moira Gunn

A BioTech Nation Special!

DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR from Children’s National Medical Centre and Jim Powers, CEO of Hemoshear Therapeutics. They talk about their breakthrough collaboration helping a young girl and her rare disease.

Then Darren Cunningham, the CEO of Inflection Biosciences in Dublin, Ireland. This start-up did things differently – they didn’t start with new science; they started with a checklist.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard Professor STEVEN PINKER about “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century”

Then on BioTech Nation, Life Science attorney GARETH WILLIAMS from MARKS & CLERK tells us about their 2014 Life Science report: Genome 2.0 – all about intellectual property worldwide. And on BioIssue of the Week, with DAVID EWING DUNCAN, he tells us that some of us are SUPERPEOPLE!

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with It’s the “The Shark’s Paintbrush – Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation”.

Then on BioTech Nation, a cell therapy being tested in the United States and worldwide – this time it’s being derived from placentas in all manner of treatments and a company looking to treat multiple conditions with a single compound.

Happy New Year! On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BOB CHAPMAN, Chairman & CEO of a long-time company of many companies- Barry-Wehmiller. They’ve acquired 75 companies in trouble while preserving employee trust.

Then on BioTech Nation, precision cancer monitoring – from diagnosis to determining the cancer treatment worked, and then one company’s approach to cystic fibrosis and their further work on several rare auto-immune diseases.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford professor BERNIE ROTH about “The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of your Life”.

Then on BioTech Nation, how one company hijacked the pathway that insulin takes into the brain to deliver drugs, and how nanotech is trying to make radiation therapy work a whole lot better.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL with two books – the non-fiction “A Deadly Wandering” and his latest novel, “The Doomsday Equation”.

Then on BioTech Nation, DR. KEVIN COX and PROFESSOR ROGER GUNN, its Chief Scientific Officer from Imanova. Where do medications go in our bodies? Or do we even know?