Health and Medicine (Audio)
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Artificial Intelligence in (AI-Driven) Healthcare
AI in healthcare raises urgent questions about bias, privacy, and power. Safiya U. Noble, Ph.D., examines how AI systems can reproduce social and raci...
Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Mechanisms to (Faltering) Therapies - Shiley Endowed Lecture
Alzheimer’s disease unfolds over many years through a complex interplay of amyloid, tau, genetics, lipid biology, and the brain’s immune response. Joh...
Awake Brain Surgery to Protect Speech
Seizures caused by epilepsy can have a dramatic impact on one's quality of life. For Nolan, his seizures cost him everyday independence, including the...
Mapping Cognitive Resilience: How Environment Aging and Inflammation Shape Information Encoding in the Hippocampus
Cognitive resilience depends on how the brain responds to environment, aging, and inflammation. J. Tiago Gonçalves, Ph.D., studies the hippocampus to...
Where Innovation Meets Patients: The Work of California’s Alpha Clinics
Alpha Clinics in California accelerate the development of regenerative medicine therapies that use cells and genes to treat serious diseases. Patient...
Reimagining T Cell Therapy: An Unconventional Path to Universal CAR-T Cells
Off-the-shelf immune cell therapies using engineered T cells represent an important direction in cancer treatment. Lili Yang, Ph.D., at UCLA develops...
Slowing the Clock: Longevity Science Meets Alzheimer’s Prevention
How fast are you really aging, and what could that mean for brain health? Aladdin H. Shadyab, Ph.D., explores the gap between chronological age and b...
What to Expect After Birth: Postpartum Care Basics
The postpartum period is a major transition that reshapes the body, emotions, and daily life all at once. Julia Cormano, MD, FACOG presents a clear ov...
Development of a Multivalent Gene Therapy to Correct Cryptic Splicing in ALS
RNA binding proteins help cells control how genetic information becomes working proteins, and Gene Yeo, Ph.D., M.B.A., at UC San Diego investigates ho...
Aging Blood Stem Cells and the Roots of Cancer
Aging is the leading risk factor for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease, and Robert A.J. Signer, Ph.D., studies how aging stem cells sha...
Mental Health and Resilience
Psychological resilience in later life examines how older adults adapt after adversity and cultivate everyday practices that sustain well-being and pu...
The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche and Implications for Clinical Transplantation
Sean Morrison, Ph.D., from the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, investigates how stem cells function, regenerate, and...
Cellular Reprogramming in Human Disease
Deepak Srivastava, MD, explores how cellular reprogramming offers new hope for treating heart disease. He highlights innovative strategies to regenera...
Why Research Funding Matters: A Patient Perspective
Kimberly Peters, a stage four uterine cancer patient at UC San Diego Health, urges government leaders not to cut science funding. She warns that reduc...
The MOM-Health Study and the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease (MOHD) Consortium
Marni Jacobs, Ph.D., M.P.H., presents the MOM Health Study, part of the NIH's Multi-Omics for Health and Disease (MOHD) Consortium, which investigates...
Managing ADT-Related Adverse Effects of Prostate Cancer
Dr. Michael Rabow, a palliative care physician, explores the wide-ranging side effects of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer and e...
Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Anthony Molina, Ph.D. highlights research and resources from the Stein Institute for Research on Aging that support healthy aging, with a focus on wom...
Aging and Menopause: Clinical Landscape and OGRS Opportunities
Linda Brubaker, M.D. emphasizes the urgent need to advance women’s health research beyond its traditional focus on reproduction, pregnancy, menopause,...
The Power of Deep Rest
Perpetual stress runs us down. But a truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter this deterioration. Series: "UC...