This podcast series brings forth recent breakthroughs in biomedical research, their importance to society, and scientific discoveries on the brink of clinical application.
From Magic Bullets to Super T Cells: Immunotherapy encompasses multiple approaches, including harnessing or enhancing immune cells, hormones, and othe...
Liquid Biopsy is a new technology developed to advance cancer treatment. By using this innovative approach, physicians can enhance their ability to tr...
Transmission of the Zika virus throughout South and Central America has become a rising global public health threat. Spread mainly through infected mo...
In 1984, Charles Hull patented a process he called “stereolithography.” Now called three-dimensional (3D) printing, this technology has been used to m...
Throughout history, medical experts have dreamed of healing untreatable wounds, replacing a disfiguring scar with healthy skin, growing replacement lu...
Just a generation ago, one out of five children in the United States died before reaching adulthood. Repeated epidemics swept through the world, kill...
The ability to peer inside the body non-invasively has revolutionized modern medicine. With positron emission tomography (PET), physicians can not onl...
Imagine if, before you ever took a drug, doctors could predict which drug would work best for you, because they already had information on how organs ...
Imagine being able to treat and control debilitating neurological disorders with a flash of light! The emerging field of optogenetics represents a pro...
Seventy percent of our drugs for pain and infection are either derived from or inspired by natural products of rainforests and other ecosystems. These...