Slowing down cancer cells

Our immune system is like a well-trained security network, constantly scanning the body for threats. So, how is it that some harmful cells manage to slip by unnoticed? In this episode, we speak to computational biologist, Dr Clare Puttick, about how cancer cells can evade detecti ...  Show more

What if the missing piece in diagnosing, and even treating, a rare disease was hiding in plain sight? For one such condition, mevalonate kinase deficiency, which affects at least one in a million people globally, that piece may now have been uncovered. In this episode, Garvan's P ...  Show more

Today we’re talking about the relationship between cancer treatment and exercise. For years, the standard advice for someone going through cancer treatment has been simple: just rest. The belief has long been that the body has to slow down and conserve energy to cope with the int ...  Show more

It can take 15 years to get one life-saving drug to market. Cutting-edge scientists are finding new ways to shift through unimaginable quantities of data faster than ever before. -- This program is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Splunk, the Data-to-Everything Platf ...  Show more

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Can we make science as fast as software? 

In this episode, Erik Torenberg talks with Patrick Hsu (cofounder of Arc Institute) and a16z general partner Jorge Conde about Arc’s “virtual cells” moonshot, which uses foundation models to simulate biology and guide experiments ...