Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 hours 6 minutes
The second season of the CERN Sparks! podcast: 6 episodes focused on discussing some of the present of health tech and science and taking a deep look at the many exciting, often risky and generally thrilling possibilities of future technologies for health. With Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna; the founding father of genomics, George Church; the WHO’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan; and many other guests.
From the use of the data captured by wearable devices to the relationship between doctors and patients in an AI world, in our first episode host Bruno Giussani explores visions of future health. Jane Metcalfe, founder of Neo...
“I think the way we do medicine these days is broken.” - Michael Snyder
In this second episode, join host Bruno Giussani as he examines the specific tools powering the biological revolution...
“We finally have a way of making an organism resistant to all viruses.” - George Church
Gene editing, complete virus resistance, longer healthspans, reversing ageing - these are no longer concepts consigned to the pages of science fiction, but real research that host Bruno Giussani explores in this episode...
“We are so taken in by technology that we forget that technology is a tool that should be used with an outcome in mind...
“There’s no such thing as too many scientists” - Ben Perry
Join host Bruno Giussani as he delves into the rationale and practice of large scale scientific collaborations. In this episode Ben Perry, medicinal chemist with DNDI (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) talks about the nature and successes of open science...
“Major advances, even in a crisis, are made in the years and decades before the crisis (...) these are not miracles that happen by chance.” - Jeremy Farrar
We have all felt the impact of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 - but we have not felt it equally...