TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
GUNNAR CARLSSON, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
and co-founder of Ayasdi about Big Data.
Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from DR. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of
Psioxus Therapeutics in Oxford, England. They're working on
oncolytic viruses , viruses which invade and kill cancer cells,
while ignoring all others.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
MARIO LIVIO about Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein and their
Colossal Mistakes.
Then on BioTech Nation, all that's meaningful about gene patents,
and the latest Supreme Court decision.

On this week's Tech Nation,
Tech Nation broadcasts from the international biotechnology
conference; BIO 2013 in Chicago. How is the world of biotechnology
changing? And how will this affect healthcare? These and other
topics are all covered in this full-hour show.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
GARY SHAPIRO, President of the Consumer Electronics Association.
He talks about ninja innovationî in the today's tsunami of
technology.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new way to control our cholesterol based
on the DNA of very low cholesterol human beings. And on BioIssue of
the Week a new poll measuring our understanding of science.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DR. BRIAN FAGAN the rising Ocean and What the Earth looked like during
the Ice Age, as opposed to today and what will it look like in the
years to come
Then on BioTech Nation, with 90 million smokers and former smokers in the US, a DNA diagnostic for the number one cancer, lung cancer.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
New York Times journalist Margalit Fox about The
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code.
Then on BioTech Nation Britain's National Health Service makes a
commitment to using a patients whole genome in their healthcare.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DANIEL DENNETT about tools to help us improve our thinking, warning
signals when someone is introducing false logic, and other
challenges in human communication.
Then on BioTech Nation Ö we talk about prostate cancer and the
efforts of BN-Immunotherapeutics to address this challenge.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Computer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about the
technological aspects of Who Owns the Future?î
Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about Duschene
Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach which may offer real hope.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Computer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about the
technological aspects of ìWho Owns the Future?
Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about Duschene
Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach which may offer real hope.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Harvard Medical School Genetics professor GEORGE CHURCH about how
Synthetic Biology may reinvent every living thing.
Then on BioTech Nation, what we can learn if we look at everyoneís
medical records ñ all together.