Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show
Interviews and Discussions With Fascinating People Who are Creating A Better Tomorrow For All Of Us - Host - Ira S. Pastor
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Can We Repair The Cell's Recycling System To Treat Lysosomal Storage Disorders? | Alex Yang - CEO, Polaryx Therapeutics
What if you could treat a genetic disease without actually fixing the defective gene?That's the fascinating idea behind a new approach being developed for devastating pediatric lysosomal storage disorders. These diseases can have comple...
Cancer Rehabilitation: Life Beyond Treatment | Dr. Eric Wisotzky, MD - VP, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, MedStar National Rehabilitation Network & Ashley Smith - Cancer Patient / VP, Scott Circle Communications
Cancer treatment can save a patient's life - but what happens when the treatment itself leaves them struggling with pain, fatigue, weakness, limited mobility, or other lasting physical effects? Cancer rehabilitation is changing how we think abo...
Can AI Solve Biology If It Can't Access The Data? | Dr. Harlan Robins, Ph.D. - President, Harell Data
We have some of the most powerful AI systems in history - but what if one of the biggest obstacles to using AI to solve biology isn't the algorithms? What if it's the data?There are enormous amounts of biological data sitting inside pha...
A New Way to Image the Breast - Using Sound | Dr. Raluca Dinu, Ph.D. - CEO, QT Imaging
What if we could look inside the breast without X-rays, without compression, and without injecting a contrast agent - and instead use sound to create a three-dimensional map of the tissue?Dr. Raluca Dinu, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Office...
The Caregiving Crisis - And How Technology Could Change It | Richard Lui, MS NOW
There are tens of millions of Americans quietly caring for a parent, spouse, child or loved one - often while trying to maintain a career and a normal life. Yet much of that work is essentially invisible to our healthcare system, our economy an...
Can Robots Understand Us? From Physical AI to Social Intelligence | Brian Hartzband - President, U.S. Operations, GMEX Robotics
A robot can see you.It can recognize you.It can track where you're moving.But can it understand what you're trying to do?Because humans don't simply move through the world - we constantly interpret one another's ...
What Does AI Actually See? The Next Generation Of Biometrics | B. Scott Swann - CEO, ROC
Your face can now be turned into a mathematical representation, searched against enormous databases, and potentially matched in fractions of a second. But what happens when AI moves beyond recognizing your face - and starts understanding everyt...
Can We Cure PBC? Inside the Race to Stop an Autoimmune Liver Disease | Carol Roberts - President, The PBCers Organization
Imagine being exhausted all the time, dealing with an itch that can become unbearable, and worrying about progressive liver damage - yet having everyone around you tell you that you look perfectly healthy. That's the reality for many people liv...
AI Is Leaving the Screen - Enter the Age of Embodied AI | John Fowler - CEO, MBody AI
Imagine walking into a major hotel or casino and discovering that the building already has a workforce you barely notice.Robots are cleaning floors, navigating around people, responding to changing conditions and reporting back on what ...
The Next Generation Of Breast Cancer Research - Addressing The Breast Cancer Gap | Dr. Joanne Mortimer, MD And Dr. Veronica Jones, MD - City of Hope
We've made extraordinary progress against breast cancer - better screening, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, antibody-drug conjugates and increasingly sophisticated molecular profiling.But one uncomfortable question remains:Wh...
Can We REPROGRAM The Immune System To Fight Cancer? | Dr. Joab Williamson, Ph.D. - Vice President of Operations, Faron Pharmaceuticals
What if the problem isn't that your immune system can't see the cancer - but that the cancer has effectively reprogrammed the immune cells around it?Faron Pharmaceuticals is pursuing a very different strategy: using an antibody called b...
Can Nature's Complexity Make Better Medicines? The Botanical Drug Revolution | Joel Stanley - CEO, AJNA BioSciences
What if one of the biggest assumptions in modern drug development is wrong?For decades, we've tried to find the one molecule responsible for a medicine's effects, purify it, manufacture it and throw away everything else.But what...
Can AI Turn Medical Images Into Biomarkers? | Dr. Susan Wood, Ph.D. - CEO, VIDA Intelligence
We normally think of a CT scan as a picture that a doctor looks at. But what if that picture is actually an enormous dataset containing thousands of quantitative measurements about what's happening inside your body? And what if AI could extract...
AI Is Learning How To Understand Surgery | Dr. Daniel Donoho, MD - Co-Founder, Foundation for Digital Neurosurgery
For centuries, surgeons have learned by watching other surgeons. But what happens when we can record virtually every movement, every instrument, every decision - and then have AI analyze millions of operations?Could we create a new “lan...
Can We Detect Lyme Disease Earlier? | Dr. Joseph Burrascano, MD
What if you could have an infection, already be experiencing symptoms, and yet the diagnostic test could still tell you that you're negative? That's one of the central challenges of Lyme disease - and today we're going inside the biology and te...
Could Electromagnetic Energy Change Brain Aging? | Chuck Papageorgiou And Dr. William Scott Burgin, NeuroEM Therapeutics
What if one of the most unconventional ideas in Alzheimer's research began with scientists asking a completely different question: Can the radio-frequency radiation from cell phones damage the brain? Instead of finding that it harmed cognition,...
Can We Engineer Better Sleep? | Thermoregulation, Menopause & the Future of Bedding | Lara Smith, Founder and CEO, LUSOMÉ
We spend roughly a third of our lives in bed. But what if the sheets, pajamas and bedding surrounding your body aren't just making you comfortable - what if they're actually affecting your physiology and your sleep?Today we're going to ...
How To Make Your Voice Heard In Government | Jennice Fuentes - BoricuActivatEd
What if you could take 25 years of experience navigating the halls of Congress - and turn that knowledge into a toolkit that anyone could use?My guest today spent decades on the inside of government, including serving as Chief of Staff ...
Reinventing Drug Manufacturing: Can Yeast Fix America's Drug Shortages? | Dr. Christina Smolke, Ph.D., CEO And Dr. Kristy Hawkins, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer - Antheia
What if one of the answers to America's drug-shortage problem isn't another pharmaceutical factory - but a genetically engineered yeast cell?For centuries, we've gone to nature to get many of our most valuable medicines - growing poppie...
Can We Make CAR-T Cells Inside The Body? | Dr. Luke Russell - President, Vyriad
CAR-T therapy can be extraordinarily powerful against cancer - but there's a catch. We currently have to take a patient's T cells out of their body, genetically engineer them in a laboratory, manufacture billions of cells, and then put them bac...
Why End-of-Life Care Is So Difficult - And How to Take Back Control | Dr. Karen Lutfey Spencer, Ph.D. - Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
We like to think that modern healthcare gives patients more control than ever before. But what if having more choices doesn't actually mean having more control? And what if, at the end of life, the healthcare system can quietly steer you toward...
The Future Battlefield: AI, Drones, Quantum & the New Arsenal of Democracy | Matt Milas - President, Defense & Space, Honeywell Aerospace
The battlefield of the future may look almost nothing like the battlefield of today. AI could make decisions at machine speed. Autonomous drones could operate in enormous numbers. Electronic warfare could turn the electromagnetic spectrum into ...
The Hidden Economy of Space: Satellites, Servicing & Space Construction | John Rood, Chairman and CEO, Momentus
For decades, we've thought about space as a place where we put satellites. But what happens when space itself becomes infrastructure - when we can move spacecraft around, refuel them, repair them, and even have robots build enormous structures ...
Can We Teach the Body Where to Build Bone? The Future of Spinal Fusion | Jeffrey Frelick - CEO, Bone Biologics
What if the future of regenerative medicine isn't simply making the body grow more tissue - but teaching it exactly WHERE to grow it?That's the idea behind NELL-1, a naturally occurring protein being developed to promote controlled bone...
Is Our Civilization Running the Wrong Operating System? | David Gottfried - Regen360
David Gottfried ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gottfried ) helped create the modern green-building movement. LEED became a global phenomenon, green buildings went mainstream, and sustainability became part of corporate vocabulary. But Da...