Podcasts by Bio Eats World

Journal Club: Modeling Mysterious Brain Structures from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.132152

The human brain is endlessly fascinating and mysterious, but the majority of brain research to date has focused on neurons and their functions. While the other types of brain cells, such as astr...

Going Back to the Workplace in a Pandemic from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.125513

It's not normal to talk to your employer about the details of your health: your current temperature, who you've been exposed to, whether your kid is sick, whether or not you've been social distanci...

Journal Club: Turning a Toxin into a Genome Editing Tool from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.118603

Over the past 15 years we have made huge advances in our ability to engineer the genome, meaning that we now have the ability to edit DNA in a programmable and precise manner. In the lab, these ...

The Thermodynamics of Life from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.087897

with @lifelikephysics, @vijaypande, and @omnivorousread Where does life truly begin? How do we understand the fundamental nature of what is “alive” and what is “not alive”? In this episode of Bio ...

Journal Club: Architecting an Aggressive Cancer from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.082244

Mechanical forces and architecture may not sound very "bio", but they are key tools of epidermal stem cells.  These stem cells essentially engineer their environment by producing both the cells ...

We, the Patients from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.076319

Healthcare is perhaps unique in that the entire system exists entirely to serve the patient... and yet, in many ways, that same patient is not the customer. In fact, the patient—and the patient's v...

Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.038496

Infertility is a common struggle with limited treatment options, particularly if caused by an issue with the uterus. On this episode of Journal Club host Lauren Richardson (@lr_bio) talks to Pro...

The Google Maps Moment in (Modeling) Biology from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.032432

You don't have to build a million planes to test a million aeronautical designs; we have mathematical simulations and models that do that for us. But in biology—once the class you'd take in high sc...

So You Wanna Build a Software Company in Healthcare? from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.006400

Building a software company in healthcare is hard—and comes along with unique challenges no other entrepreneurs face. In this conversation, a16z bio general partner (and previous founder of genomic...

Journal Club: Why do only some people get severe COVID-19? from 2023-12-12T16:52:55.000561

One of the enduring mysteries of COVID-19 is why some people get a severe disease that can be fatal, whereas the majority experience a very mild or even asymptomatic disease. On this episode of ...

From Junk DNA to an RNA Revolution from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.958039

What the heck is "junk DNA"? In this episode, a16z General Partner Jorge Conde and Bio Eats World host Hanne Winarsky talk to Professor Rick Young, Professor of Biology and head of the Young Lab ...

Journal Club: Suppressing Superbugs from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.951709

"Superbug" is shorthand for multi-drug resistant bacteria. Infections with superbugs are the most difficult to treat, because these bacteria have evolved ways of evading multiple — and sometimes...

May I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please? from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.945448

There's been a lot of talk (including on this show!) about the many kinds of innovations and technologies changing healthcare delivery for clinicians and patients. But what's happening behind the s...

Journal Club: Assembling an Egg from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.917109

On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, we explore the very compelling question of whether we can use our understanding of developmental biology to create oocytes (aka eggs or female...

Sea Turtle Medicine from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.911612

Sea turtles occupy a very special biological niche in our world. And we still know relatively little about these creatures, one of the very few marine reptiles on the face of the planet. But as ...

Journal Club: Restoring a Reflex from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.906328

In a healthy person, your body automatically adjusts blood pressure constantly, and this adjustment is governed by what’s called the baroreflex. However, a spinal cord injury can disrupt this re...

Evolution: Animals, Aliens, and Ourselves from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.885614

The search for and conjecture about alien life has evolved, from science fiction to just plain science. On this episode, host Lauren Richardson talks to Arik Kershenbaum, Ph.D, author of the new...

Journal Club: Sleeping Under the Star-Shaped Cells from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.867093

Neuroscientists have long been trying to determine what happens in the brain during sleep, but to date, they have overlooked a key player: astrocytes. These star-shaped cells were once thought t...

Viral Genomes from A to Z from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.845629

If there is one rule in biology, it is that there is an exception to every rule. This includes even the basic biochemistry of DNA, which was once thought to be universal. On this episode, host L...

The Problem with Urgent Care from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.839224

When it comes to healthcare, the topic of how expensive it is and what we can do to lower costs is always top of mind. One area with particularly steep costs is the emergency department. These a...

Carolyn Bertozzi and Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.804876

In Bio Eats World's Journal Club episodes, we discuss groundbreaking research articles, why they matter, what new opportunities they present, and how to take these findings from paper to practic...

The Consolidated Drug Channel and Cash-Pay Drugs from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.793682

What’s up with the drug channel? Julie Yoo, a general partner at a16z Bio+Health, joins Adam Fein, the CEO of Drug Channels Institute, and Olivia Webb, the editorial lead for a16z Bio+Health, to...

Demystifying DC: Opportunities for Collaboration from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.786767

In this episode, a16z Bio+Health general partner Vineeta Agarwala spoke with Bobby Franklin, the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association, about whether healthcare can be a ...

AI is Here. Now What? from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.775949

AI is here...so why isn't it in every clinic? 

Eric Topol talks with a16z Bio + Health general partners Vijay Pande and Vineeta Agarwala and editorial lead Olivia Webb about what's taking ...

Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.765212

The last few months have seen dramatic—almost magical—applications of expert generative AI released to the public. (One of those applications, incidentally, was in editing the sound mix of this ...

Advancing the Field of Immunotherapeutics from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.745064

In this episode, Kevin Parker, cofounder and CEO of Cartography Biosciences, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to discuss immuno-oncology,...

Payments&Payors: Fintech's Role with Kurt Adams from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.729929

In this episode, Kurt Adams, CEO of Optum Financial, chats with Daisy Wolf, investment partner for a16z Bio + Health, and Marc Andrusko, investment partner for a16z focused on fintech, about Opt...

Culture and Company Building with Sam Corcos from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.722711

In today's episode, Sam Corcos, CEO and cofounder of Levels Health, chats with Vijay Pande, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, about how Sam cofounded Levels, how to decide who becomes CEO if...

Journal Club: Remodeling oncogenic transcriptomes with Ben Cravatt and Gene Yeo from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.702620

Today marks the reboot of our journal club series, so you can look forward to seeing these episodes as part of our regular feed. 

This episode is a scientific deep dive on recent research ...

Reengineering Healthcare and Medicine with Technology with Vineeta Agarwala from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.678591

This is a crossover episode with The Bioverge Podcast, hosted by Neil Littman. Neil is joined by Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they chat about Vineeta's dual ...

Adapting Biopharma to AI with Greg Meyers from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.659602

Today’s episode is with Greg Meyers, EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb (or BMS). He is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Jorge Conde.

Together,...

The Founders Reinventing Healthcare with Fintech from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.653396

Today’s episode is a cross-post with the a16z podcast. It features founders—Chris Severn, Florian Otto, Andrew Adams, Jade Chan, Jimmy Chen, and Fay Rotenberg—chatting with a16z podcast host Ste...

Putting the Pro in Provider Networks with Dan Rosenthal from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.605266

Dan Rosenthal, a provider network expert and the newest advisory partner for a16z Bio + Health, joins Julie Yoo, general partner.

Together, they talk about the 101 and 201 of provider netw...

The AI-Flipped Clinic with Zak Kohane from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.598231

Together, Vijay and Zak talked about having been through AI winters and hype cycles before, and why they think this time could be different. They also talked about how AI could revolutionize the...

Becoming a Partnership Pioneer with Dan Nomura from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.578558

Dan Nomura  is a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley and an Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute, specializing in Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics. He serves as the Di...

AI Revolution with Daphne Koller from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.561594

This episode is live from our recent AI Revolutionaries (AIR) conference. In this episode, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO at insitro and AI expert, chats with Vijay Pande of Bio + Health.

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The Worlds She Sees with Fei-Fei Li from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.534002

Fei-Fei Li, PhD,  Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande....

Gate Unveiling with Jordi Mata-Fink from 2023-12-12T16:52:54.516868

Jordi Mata-Fink, PhD, cofounder of Gate Bioscience, joins Vineeta Agarwala and Ben Portney of a16z Bio + Health.

In this episode, Jordi discusses how he and his cofounders are working to c...

Generalist Medical AI with Pranav Rajpurkar from 2023-12-12T14:00

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.

In this episode, Pranav and Vijay discuss a future with generalist medical AI. This is the idea of a medica...

How to Build an AI-Native Health Plan with Mario Schlosser from 2023-11-28T14:00

Mario Schlosser, cofounder, former CEO, and current President of Technology at Oscar Health, joins Julie Yoo of Bio + Health.

The conversation explores how AI advancements can revolutioniz...

Bridging AI, Ethics, and Consumer Trust with Miriam Vogel from 2023-11-21T14:00

Miriam Vogel, President and CEO of EqualAI, cohost of the podcast In AI We Trust?, and Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, joins Vijay Pande of Bio + Health.

Miriam offers pragmat...

Clinical Copilots: Augmenting Human Care with Suchi Saria from 2023-11-14T14:00

AI trailblazer Suchi Saria, in conversation with Vijay Pande, sheds light on the winding path that led her to launch Bayesian Health, a bold effort to infuse intelligence into clinical workflows...

Supercharging Discovery with Evan Feinberg from 2023-10-31T13:00

Evan Feinberg, PhD, founder and CEO at Genesis Therapeutics, joins Vijay Pande of Bio + Health.

Together, they talk about how Evan’s work in the lab (ironically, Vijay's lab at Stanford!) ...

Evolving Biotechnologies with Olga Troyanskaya from 2023-10-24T13:00

Olga Troyanskaya, a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton and Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology, joins Vijay Pande,...

CMO vs. CPO with Peter Shalek and Reena Pande from 2023-10-17T13:00

Peter Shalek, a Chief Product Officer, currently at Stellar Health and formerly at AbleTo, and Reena Pande, currently a strategic advisor and formerly the Chief Medical Officer of AbleTo, join J...

Interpretability and the AI"Clear Box"with Surya Ganguli from 2023-10-10T13:00

Note that due to technical difficulties, the audio quality of this episode may vary.

Surya Ganguli, PhD, an associate professor at Stanford University and a neural dynamics researcher, joi...

When Quantity Becomes Quality with Aviv Regev from 2023-09-26T13:00

Today's episode features Aviv Regev, PhD, the Head and Executive VP of Genentech Research and Early Development, and founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas. She is joined by Vijay Pande of Bi...

Navigating the Future of AI with Andrew Ng from 2023-09-19T13:00

Andrew Ng, PhD, a distinguished authority in the field of AI, is known for founding DeepLearning.AI and multiple other ventures. He also co-founded and led Google Brain and serves as an Adjunct ...

Unleashing CAR T with Carl June from 2023-09-12T13:00

Carl June, MD, an immunologist and oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health.

Together, Carl and Jorge talked about Carl's pione...

Wartime and Peacetime: Being a Leader with Ben Horowitz from 2023-08-29T13:00

In this exclusive conversation from the Bio + Health BUILD summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. They discuss everything from the inspiration behind B...

Medical Education and AI with Lloyd B. Minor from 2023-08-22T13:00

Together, Lloyd and Vijay chatted about how AI could change the practice of medicine, and what the implications are for medical students now and in the future. 

join Lloyd and Vijay as the...

The Path of a Healthtech CTO with Margaret McKenna from 2023-08-15T13:00

Together, Margaret and Julie chatted about Margaret’s background — and how she taught herself to program — her time at Devoted, and the advice she gives to healthtech CEOs.

Join Margaret a...

The Exec Hiring Playbook with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi from 2023-07-25T13:00

The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings its own set of challenges, particula...

Drugging the Undruggable with Greg Verdine from 2023-07-20T14:50

When Greg started out in science, he heard other researchers referring to certain targets as “undruggable.” In response, he’s devoted his life to drugging the undruggable, cofounding the field o...

Forecasting Human Health with Jeffrey Kaditz from 2023-07-18T13:00

After his own health scare, Jeffrey got obsessed with how MRIs work—and decided that they were too unscientific to really track human health over time. In response, he built a new kind of imagin...

Will AI Kill Us All? with Marc Andreessen from 2023-07-11T13:00

AI has the potential to save the world — that’s the thesis of Marc’s most recent article, linked below. This episode was recorded right after Marc published his article, live from a16z Bio + Hea...

AI, Innovation, and Regulatory Insights with Amy Abernethy from 2023-06-27T13:00

AI is not just a sci-fi concept anymore; it's being woven into the fabric of healthcare, revolutionizing everything from research to patient care. It has the potential to create more streamlined...

From Faculty to Founder: Building Startups from Academia from 2023-06-20T13:00

In this episode, taken from a live a16z event, Bio + Health general partner Vineeta Agarwala moderates a panel of UCSF faculty founders, including Michelle Arkin, Jimmie Ye, and Natalia Jura (fu...

Curing the Trust Problem with Mark Cuban from 2023-06-13T13:00

Today’s episode is with Mark Cuban, founder of multiple businesses, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, one of the sharks on Shark Tank, and cofounder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. He is ...

Healthcare x Fintech with Julie Yoo and David Haber from 2023-05-25T13:00

Healthcare payments are difficult, confusing, and opaque. But Julie and David discuss the ways that technology could change that for the better, and where they see the greatest opportunity for f...

Journal Club: Engineering Logic into CAR T Therapies with Robbie Majzner from 2023-05-18T13:00

In this episode, a16z Bio + Health investment partner Becky Pferdehirt chats with Robbie Majzner, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Stanford, and...

The Future of Cheese with Magi Richani from 2023-05-11T13:00

Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande.

Together, they talk about the details of engineering ...

Bio x American Dynamism with Katherine Boyle and David Ulevitch from 2023-04-27T13:00

Today’s episode is with a16z’s American Dynamism team: Katherine Boyle and David Ulevitch. Katherine is a general partner focused on national security, aerospace and defense, public safety, hous...

Shaping Channel Partnerships with Sean Duffy from 2023-04-20T13:00

Today’s episode is with Sean Duffy, cofounder and CEO of Omada Health. He is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Jay Rughani. Together, they talk about S...

Strategizing Channel Partnerships with Florian Otto from 2023-04-19T13:00

This week, we’re releasing two episodes about all things channel partnerships. Today’s episode is with Florian Otto, cofounder and CEO of Cedar. He is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner...

AI and Actionable Insights for Drug Development with Daphne Koller from 2023-04-13T13:00

In this episode, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro—as well as the co-founder of Coursera, a MacArthur Award winner, and a former professor in the department of computer science at Stanfo...

Health System Partnerships with Tommy Ibrahim from 2023-03-30T13:00

In this episode, a16z Bio + Health general partner Julie Yoo chats with Bassett Healthcare Network president and CEO Tommy Ibrahim. Together, they talk about Tommy's journey from practicing phys...

From the Archives: The Art&Science of Biology's Future with Jennifer Doudna from 2023-03-23T15:17:17

In this episode from the archives, originally published in February 2021, Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 with Emmanuelle Charpentier, chats wit...

The Power of a Platform Company with Josh Mandel-Brehm from 2023-03-16T13:00

In this episode, Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, talks with Josh Mandel-Brehm, founding CEO of CAMP4. Together, they talk about how CAMP4 focuses on regulatory RNA (and what t...

American Optimism with Joe Lonsdale from 2023-02-23T14:00

In this episode, Joe Lonsdale, founder and managing partner at 8VC, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead. Together, we talk about what factor...

Going to Market in Healthcare: B2C2B from 2023-02-16T14:00

In this episode, Julie Yoo, general partner, and Jay Rughani, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health, talk to Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven; Amanda Rees, cofounder and CEO of Bold Health...

Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging from 2023-01-26T14:00

In this episode, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to discuss the biology of aging, how she...

Payors and Providers Post-Pandemic from 2023-01-20T13:00

In this episode, Paul Keckley, the managing editor of the Keckley Report and a health policy expert, joins Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead at a16z. 

Tog...

Using AI to Take Bio Farther from 2023-01-11T14:00

Jakob Uszkoreit and Vijay Pande discuss all things AI — from Jakob's time at Google Brain, to how humans (and computers) process language, to Inceptive’s belief in the promise of RNA, and how Ja...

Cultivated Meat: Challenges, Opportunities, Future from 2022-12-15T11:00

From initial inspiration in a sci-fi novel to the current state of “designing biology” in cultivated meat, SCiFi Foods cofounder and CEO Joshua March chats with Bio + Health general partner Vija...

Regulatory Trends in Telehealth from 2022-11-17T11:00

Perhaps no area of healthcare has undergone such a rapid shift as telehealth during the Covid pandemic. But as the world emerges from the public health emergency, it's an open question what will...

Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible? from 2022-10-20T10:00

Can a game be both fun and therapeutic? Vijay Pande, the first employee at Naughty Dog Software and a current Bio+Health general partner at a16z, joins Jon Lai, a Games general partner, and Oliv...

Deploying AI Platforms to Identify Sepsis from 2022-07-21T16:00

On this episode, we discuss three recent papers out in Nature Medicine this week, all examining the deployment of Bayesian Health's AI platform in a clinical setting: Two prospective studies foc...

Discovery, Translation, and the State of Bio Today from 2021-08-18T13:00

On this episode, we are taking a pulse-check on the state of the intersection between biology, healthcare, and technology with two scientists that sit at another intersection, that of academia a...

Engineering an Epigenome Editor from 2021-07-22T21:09:06

On today’s episode we are discussing the results and implications of a recent study that describes the creation of a new set of tools to turn off or on any region in the genome with high specifi...

Evolving Embodied Intelligence from 2021-06-30T10:00

On today’s episode, we are making the full arc from the theoretical and borderline philosophical to the applied. Let’s start with the theory: embodied intelligence posits that the body, or the p...

Building Digital Health's Github from 2021-06-22T10:00

Today’s episode is all about the history and future of infusing tech into healthcare with the goals of improving outcomes and lowering costs, and features one of the leading voices in this field...

The Genetic Testing (R)Evolution from 2021-06-15T10:00

Genetic testing is on the cusp of a major revolution, which has the potential to shift not just how we understand our risk for disease, but how we practice healthcare. In the clinic today, genet...

World’s largest supercomputer v. biology’s toughest problems from 2021-05-25T10:00

This episode was recorded in March of 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Folding at Home, the distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, and originally aired on Listen

The Trials of Clinical Trials from 2021-05-18T10:00

On the path from scientific discovery to new drug, the clinical trial is a huge — and critical — hurdle. Clinical trials are themselves experiments, and to make sure that they are doing the best...

The New Science of Cell Shape from 2021-05-11T10:00

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a cell by its shape? On this episode, host Lauren Richardson is joined by Maddison Masaeli (CEO and cofounder of Deepcell),...

The Power of Patient-Centric Healthcare from 2021-04-27T10:00

Today we are re-running an episode exploring a question that seems super straightforward, but that on closer examination reveals incredible complexity, and that is "how do we put the patient at ...

Journal Club: Hunting the Eagle Killer from 2021-04-20T10:00

In 1994, 29 bald eagles were found dead at DeGray Lake in Arkansas. This mass mortality event kicked off a search for the culprit which has last over 25 years. On this episode of the Bio Eats Wo...

Journal Club: Sourcing the Secrets of Climate Adaptation from 2021-04-13T10:00

Understanding how plants have adapted to natural climate change over millions of years provides a playbook of evolutionary strategies to help us prepare for and respond to man-made climate chang...

Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth... Again! from 2021-03-30T10:00

Today we are re-running a previous episode of Journal Club — our show where we curate breakthrough research and bridge paper to practice — in light of a recent article published in the journal N...

Solving Medical Mysteries in the World of Rare Disease from 2021-03-23T13:00

In this conversation, Stanford Professor Euan Ashley—geneticist, cardiologist, author of the new book, The Genome Odyssey, and first co-chair of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network—talks with Bio Eats...

Journal Club: Taming the Taste for Blood from 2021-03-16T10:00

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth and for millennia humans have tried to rid themselves of these disease-spreading pests, with shockingly little success. On this episode of the Bio E...

The Theory of a Thousand Brains from 2021-03-12T18:54:31

In this episode, we talk with Jeff Hawkins—an entrepreneur and scientist, known for inventing some of the earliest handheld computers, the Palm and the Treo, who then turned his career to neuros...

The Art and Science of Biology's Future from 2021-02-26T15:57:10

In this episode of Bio Eats World, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Doudna—winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for the co-discovery (with Emmanuelle Charpentier) of CRISPR-Cas9—about the art and science of biolo...

Journal Club: Engineering Living Materials from 2021-02-23T11:00

To date, synthetic biology has been mainly focused on reproducing existing compounds and materials with biomanufacturing. Think of engineering yeast to produce anti-malarial drugs, or bacteria p...

Value Versus Volume (in Healthcare) from 2021-02-19T23:43:26

The way we pay for healthcare in the US has long been by fee-for-service: per doctor visit, per test, per surgery, per hospital stay. But that system has led to rapidly escalating volumes of servic...

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm in Healthcare from 2021-02-17T16:24:44

In this episode, we share an episode of the brand new a16z Live podcast feed called “It’s Time to Heal”—a live conversation on audio/drop in chat app Clubhouse every Monday at 5pm PT, covering the...

Journal Club: My Tick Teacher from 2021-02-11T11:00

Ticks are "master scientists of our skin," says our guest — Seemay Chou, Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco. On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, Dr. C...

Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging from 2021-01-28T11:00

Today we are revisiting a topic and episode that was originally aired back when Journal Club was part of the a16z podcast. We are covering it again in light of a new research article published i...

The Fundamental Principles of Reality from 2021-01-25T14:00

What are the fundamental principles that govern the physical world around us, and how did we get to them? In this episode, Bio Eats World hosts Hanne Winarsky and Lauren Richardson talk to Nobel pr...

Journal Club: A Safer Psychedelic from 2021-01-21T11:00

Move over microdosing, there is a new approach to psychedelic medicine. Psychedelics — like LSD and psilocybin — are some of the most powerful drugs that affect our brains, but their therapeutic...

The Genetics of Risk from 2021-01-18T11:00

Genetic testing is on the cusp of a major revolution, which has the potential to shift not just how we understand our risk for disease, but how we practice healthcare. In the clinic today, genetic ...

Journal Club: Synthetic Germs, Our Newest Weapon for Fighting Cancer from 2021-01-14T11:00

Immuno-oncology, which leverages the body's own immune system to fight cancer, is a true medical revolution. But to date, these therapies have only targeted one of the two arms of the immune sys...

The Biology of Brain Organoids (or, Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!) from 2021-01-11T14:00

For more on brain organoids and their many applications, check out this episode of Journal Club: "Modelin...

The Machine That Made the Vaccine from 2020-12-18T14:00

A year ago, none of us would believe that mRNA vaccines would be a household name. And yet here we are, at the end of 2020, counting the days towards a vaccine that could not just save lives but he...

The Cost Disease in Healthcare from 2020-12-14T14:00

with @pmarca and @vijaypande How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics all get cheaper and cheaper? In this...

Journal Club: How to Win an Evolutionary Arms Race from 2020-12-10T11:00

Viruses (like HIV) and their hosts (like humans) are locked in an evolutionary arms race, with each trying to outwit the other. But viruses seem to have a big advantage (MUCH faster evolution), ...

The Story of Schizophrenia from 2020-11-30T14:00

Descriptions of the mental illness we today call schizophrenia are as old as humankind itself. And more than likely, we are are all familiar with this disease in some way, as it touches 1% of us—mi...

Food as Medicine from 2020-11-24T14:00

We all know that eating healthy is better for you—and that following that advice is far harder than it sounds, for a multitude of reasons, from culture to preferences to access and affordability. A...

Journal Club: Decoding Developmental Disorders from 2020-11-19T11:00

Approximately half of all severe developmental disorders are caused by de novo (new, not inherited) mutations in protein-coding genes. But which genes? In this episode of the Bio Eats World Jour...

Health—at What Price? from 2020-11-16T08:00

Imagine if the airline industry did not post prices for flights in advance. What if instead of posting fares on travel sites, airlines argued they could only bill you after the flight, because they...

Journal Club: Defeating Type 1 Diabetes from 2020-11-12T11:00

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease with no cure and challenging treatment regimes. The disease is characterized by self-reactive immune cells that attack and destroy cells in the pancreas ...

Journal Club: From Insect Eyes to Nanomaterials from 2020-10-29T10:00

On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, a16z bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and host Lauren Richardson discuss a new article that makes the full arc from basic science discove...

It's Time to Build in Healthcare: COVID-19, Innovation, and What Comes Next from 2020-10-26T13:00

In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to discuss the large scale societal effects of the current pandemic on ...

Journal Club: Reversing Parkinson's with New Neurons from 2020-10-22T10:00

Neurons do not divide or replicate, so how can we replace neurons killed by neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease? On the Bio Eats World Journal Club, UCSD Professor Xiang-Dong Fu ...

The Biology of Pain from 2020-10-19T21:04:15

Why do we experience physical pain? Is all pain the same, or are there different types? Do people experience pain differently? Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School Clifford Woolf, an...

Journal Club: Super-Scaling COVID-19 Testing with DNA Sequencing from 2020-10-15T07:00

There is a wide range of diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that are all well suited for determining whether an individual patient is sick with the virus. But to safely reopen society in the absence ...

Biology by Design from 2020-10-13T07:00

We’re at the dawn of a new era where we’re truly able to design biology: from genetically engineered cotton, to meat made from plants, to incredibly complex new therapies composed of engineered cel...

Revolutions in Cancer Treament—Past, Present, and Future from 2020-09-29T14:08:31

with @JorgeCondeBio, @JLimMD, @AmerCancerCEO, and @omnivorousread In this episode of Bio Eats World, we explore all the major revolutions in cancer treatment across the history of medicine—and wha...

Journal Club: Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins from 2020-09-24T07:00:09

In Bio Eats World's Journal Club episodes, we discuss groundbreaking research articles, why they matter, what new opportunities they present, and how to take these findings from paper to practic...

The Biology of Aging from 2020-09-22T07:00:17

with @LauraDeming, @kpfortney, @vijaypande, and @omnivorousread Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is technology. Bio is breaking out of the ...

Introducing"Bio Eats World" from 2020-08-18T13:27:51

This new show, from the same team that produces the popular a16z Podcast, will be all about how biology today is where technology was 50 years ago: on the precipice of revolutionizing our world ...