Making Sense of Science features interviews with leading medical and scientific experts about the latest developments in health innovation and the big ethical and social questions they raise. The podcast is hosted by science journalist Matt Fuchs
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Therapies for Healthy Aging with Dr. Alexandra Bause
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My guest today is Dr. Alexandra Bause, a biologist who has dedicated her career to advancing health, medicine and healthier human lifespans. Dr. Bause co-founded a company called Apollo Health Ventures in 2017. She is currently a venture partner at Apollo and immersed in the exciting work going on in Apollo’s Venture Lab. The company is focused on …
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How to Measure Your Stress with Dr. Rosalind Picard
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Today’s podcast guest is Rosalind Picard, a researcher, inventor named on over 100 patents, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer. When it comes to the science related to endowing computer software with emotional intelligence, she wrote the book. It’s published by MIT Press and called Affective Computing. Dr. Picard is founder and director o…
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How to Use the Immune System Against Cancer and Alzheimer's, with Dr. Paul Song
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On today’s episode of Making Sense of Science, I’m honored to be joined by Dr. Paul Song, a physician, oncologist, progressive activist and biotech chief medical officer. Through his company, NKGen Biotech, Dr. Song is leveraging the power of patients’ own immune systems by supercharging the body’s natural killer cells to make new treatments for Al…
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Leading XPRIZE Healthspan and Beating Negativity, with Dr. Peter Diamandis
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A new competition by the XPRIZE Foundation is offering $101 million to researchers if they discover therapies that allow seniors to perform like when they were 10 to 20 years younger. For today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPRIZE’s founder and executive chairman. Under Peter’s leadership, XPRIZE has launched 27 previous competition…
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New psychedelics that rewire the brain for more well-being, with Doug Drysdale
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A promising development in science in recent years has been the advance of technologies that take something natural and use technology to optimize it. This episode features a fascinating example: using tech to optimize psychedelic mushrooms. These mushrooms have been used for religious, spiritual and medicinal purposes for thousands of years but on…
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Fast for Longevity, with Less Hunger, with Dr. Valter Longo
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You’ve probably heard about intermittent fasting, where you don’t eat for about 16 hours each day and limit the window where you’re taking in food to the remaining 8 hours. But there’s another type of fasting, called fasting-mimicking diet, with studies pointing to important benefits for health and longevity. For today’s episode, I chatted with Dr.…
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A New Clue in Fighting Alzheimer's, with Dr. Michael Glickman
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In recent years, researchers of Alzheimer’s have made progress in figuring out the complex factors that lead to the disease. Yet, the root cause, or causes, of Alzheimer’s are still pretty much a mystery. In fact, many people get Alzheimer’s even though they lack the gene variant we know can play a role in the disease. This is a critical knowledge …
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How to Use Thoughts to Control Computers with Dr. Tom Oxley
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Tom Oxley is building what he calls a “natural highway into the brain” that lets people use their minds to control their phones and their computers. The device, called the Stentrode, could improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with spinal cord paralysis, ALS and other neuro degenerative diseases. Leaps.org talked with Dr. Oxle…
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Will Eating Insects Go Mainstream by 2030?
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In today’s podcast episode, Leaps.org Deputy Editor Lina Zeldovich speaks about the health and ecological benefits of farming crickets for human consumption with Bicky Nguyen, who joins Lina from Vietnam. Bicky and her business partner Nam Dang operate an insect farm named CricketOne. Motivated by the idea of sustainable and healthy protein product…
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We Can Age Later, with Dr. Nir Barzilai
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In today’s podcast episode, I talk with Nir Barzilai, a geroscientist, which means he studies the biology of aging. Barzilai directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. My first question for Dr. Barzilai was: why do we age? And do we have to age? His answers were encouraging. We can’t live forever, but there…
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Meet Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the First Director of President Biden's New Health Agency, ARPA-H
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In today’s podcast episode, I talk with Renee Wegrzyn, appointed by President Biden as the first director of a federal agency created last year called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. It’s inspired by DARPA, the agency that develops innovations for the Defense department and has been credited with hatching world changing…
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Friday Five: New Eye Scans Could Show How Fast You're Aging
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The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the week…
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Friday Five: Go to This Type of Event to Improve Well-Being, Research Suggests
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The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the week…
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Are You Having a Healthy Change of Heart? An HRV Sensor Can Tell You
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This episode is about a health metric you may not have heard of before: heart rate variability, or HRV. This refers to the small changes in the length of time between each of your heart beats. Scientists have known about and studied HRV for a long time. In recent years, though, new monitors have come to market that can measure HRV accurately whenev…
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Friday Five: Money Can Buy You Happiness If You're This Type of Person
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The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weeken…
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Friday Five: Breathe This Way to Increase Well-being, Stanford Study Suggests
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The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weeken…
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What Causes Aging - and What Could Reverse It - with Dr. David Sinclair
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What causes aging? In a paper published last month, Dr. David Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, reports that he and his co-authors have found the answer. Harnessing this knowledge, Dr. Sinclair was able to reverse this process, making mice younger, according to the study published in the journal Cell. I ta…
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The Real Solution to Freeing Our Kids - and Ourselves - from Tech Addiction, with Gaia Bernstein
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Each afternoon, kids walk through my neighborhood, on their way home from school, and almost all of them are walking alone, staring down at their phones. It's a troubling site. This daily parade of the zombie children just can’t bode well for the future. That’s one reason I felt like Gaia Bernstein’s new book was talking directly to me. A law profe…
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This Lifestyle Change Could Slow Down Aging, According to New Research
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Last Thursday, scientists at Columbia University published a new study finding that cutting down on calories could lead to longer lives. In the phase 2 trial, 220 healthy people without obesity dropped their calories significantly, and a test of their biological age showed that their rate of aging slowed by 2 to 3 percent in over a couple of years.…
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The Friday Five: Artificial DNA Could Give Cancer the Hook
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The Friday Five: A Surprising Health Benefit for People Who Have Kids
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The Friday Five: You've Never Heard of the Best Sport for Mental Health
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The World's Longest Running Study on Happiness, with Dr. Bob Waldinger
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What makes for a good life? Such a simple question, yet we don't have great answers. Most of us try to figure it out as we go along, and many end up feeling like they never got to the bottom of it. Shouldn't something so important be approached with more scientific rigor? In 1938, Harvard researchers began a study to fill this gap. Since then, they…
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The Friday Five: A New Blood Test to Detect Alzheimer's
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Repairing Cells and Longevity Myths with Dr. Charles Brenner
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Meet Charles Brenner, the Longevity Skeptic. Brenner, a leading biochemist at City of Hope National Medical Center in L.A., has been attending the largest longevity conferences with one main purpose: to point out that some of the other speakers are full of it. Brenner is "throwing cold water" on several scientists in the field of aging, accusing th…
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The Friday Five: An mRNA Vaccine Works Against Cancer
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The Friday Five: Sugar Could Help Catch Cancer Early
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The Friday Five: Soon Band-Aids Could Be AIs
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The Friday Five: The Plain Solution to Holiday Stress?
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The Friday Five: How to Exercise for Cancer Prevention
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The Friday Five: Electric Shocks Help People Walk Again
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Friday Five: Boots for Running Faster with Less Effort
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The Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of October. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but…
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The Friday Five: Lab Made Blood Vessels
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The Friday Five: How to Make Cities of the Future Less Noisy
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The Friday Five: How Young Athletes Can Avoid Lifelong Joint Problems
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Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Boost Health? An Interview with Shai Efrati
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On today’s podcast episode, I had a chance to speak with Shai Efrati, a physician and professor in the schools of medicine and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Efrati also directs the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, and our conversation in this episode focuses on the potential health benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Efr…
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The Friday Five: Armoring our Livers Against Cancer
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Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in September
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The Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of September. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – b…
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The Friday Five: A Mask that Could Detect Covid
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The Friday Five: A Pill to Prevent Lung Cancer?
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The Friday Five: The Need for (Walking) Speed to Reduce Dementia Risk
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The Friday Five: The Best Plants to Suck Toxins from the Air
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The Inner Lives of Human Breasts with Camila dos Santos
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My guest today for the Making Sense of Science podcast is Camila dos Santos, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, who is a leading researcher of the inner lives of human mammary glands, more commonly known as breasts. These organs are unlike any other because throughout life they undergo numerous changes, first in puberty, then during pre…
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The Friday Five: How to Get the Benefits of Near-Death Experiences
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The Friday Five: A Saliva Test for PTSD
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The Science of Recharging Your Energy with Sara Mednick
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If you’re like me, you may have a case of email apnea, where you stop taking restful breaths when you open a work email. Or maybe you’re in the habit of shining blue light into your eyes long after sunset through your phone. Many of us are doing all kinds of things throughout the day that put us in a constant state of fight or flight arousal, with …
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The Friday Five: Sex Differences in Cancer
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The Friday Five: Reviving the Organs of Dead Pigs
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The Friday Five: Stickers that See Inside Your Body
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The Friday Five is a new series in which Leaps.org covers five breakthroughs in research over the previous week that you may have missed. There are plenty of controversies and ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but there’s also plenty to be excited about, and this news roundup is focused on inspiring s…
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Wellness Chatbots and Meditation Pods with Deepak Chopra
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Over the last few decades, perhaps no one has impacted healthy lifestyles more than Deepak Chopra. While some of his recommendations are criticized, Chopra has helped bring meditation, yoga and other practices for well-being into the mainstream, in ways that benefit the health of vast numbers of people every day. His work has led many people, inclu…
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