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Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Mechanotherapeutics – From Drugs to WearablesMechanobiology reveals insights into how the body’s physical forces and mechanics impact development, physiological health, and prevention and treatment of disease. The emerging field of Mechanotherapeutics leverages these insights towards the development of new types of pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, engineered tissues, and wearable therapeutic devices that leverage physical forces or target mechanical signaling pathways... -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Fluorescent In Situ SequencingDeveloped at the Wyss, FISSEQ (fluorescent in situ sequencing) is a spatial gene sequencing technology that reads and visualizes the three-dimensional coordinates of RNA and mRNAs – the working copies of genes – within whole cells and tissues. FISSEQ affords insights into biological complexity that until now have not been possible. In this episode of... -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Putting Biofilms to WorkBiofilms are commonly known as the slime-producing bacterial communities sitting on stones in streams, dirty pipes and drains, or dental plaque. However, Wyss Core Faculty member Neel Joshi is putting to work the very properties that make biofilms effective nuisances or threats in our daily lives. In this episode of Disruptive, Joshi and postdoctoral fellow... -
Audio/PodcastSynthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial HeartSynthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial Heart was originally broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered on July 7, 2016. This story features Wyss Core Faculty member Kit Parker. The original broadcast story can be found here. -
Audio/PodcastThe Modest Mouse: Why We Use Mice in MedicineThe Modest Mouse: Why We Use Mice in Medicine was originally broadcast on NPR’s Innovation Hub on July 2016. This story features Wyss Core Faculty member Don Ingber. The original broadcast story can be found here. -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Rapid, Low-Cost Detection of Zika & Future PandemicsThe rapid emergence of the Zika virus on the world stage calls for a detection system that is just as quick. In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member and MIT professor Jim Collins and University of Toronto Assistant Professor Keith Pardee discuss how they developed a low cost, paper-based diagnostic platform that can... -
Audio/PodcastFireside Chat with George ChurchAudio recording of a fireside chat with Wyss Core Faculty member George Church at the 2016 Convergence Forum, held in Chatham, Mass. on May 12 and 13, 2016. Moderated by Alison Taunton-Rigby. -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Molecular RoboticsHow can DNA be programmed to build novel structures, devices, and robots? We have taken our understanding of DNA to another level, beginning to take advantage of some of DNA’s properties that have served nature so well, but in ways nature itself may have never pursued. Humans can now use DNA as a medium for... -
Audio/PodcastGeorge Church: Responsibility, art & science of intentional extinction, de-extinction & agingGeorge Church Responsibility, art & science of intentional extinction, de-extinction & aging Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 ArtScience @ Le Lab Lecture Series: Art, Design, Engineering & Biology – Core Faculty from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University discuss how the arts and design are informing the frontiers of science. ArtScience @... -
Audio/PodcastMusings on Science and Society, with a dash of CRISPRThe Science Soapbox team sits down with Dr. George Church to talk everything from the dawn of CRISPR to the place of science fiction in society. Dr. Church is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, leader of the Synthetic Biology Platform at the Wyss institute, and director of PersonalGenomes.org. This episode was recorded on... -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Cancer Vaccine & Hydrogel Drug DeliveryIn this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Founding Core Faculty Member Dave Mooney discusses programmable nanomaterials approaches to fighting disease. Mooney explains how a cancer vaccine, developed by his team and currently in a clinical trial at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, can train one’s own immune system to target specific cancer cells. He also describes the... -
Audio/PodcastDisruptive: Confronting SepsisIn this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber and Senior Staff Scientist Mike Super discuss how their team developed a new therapeutic device inspired by the human spleen. This blood-cleansing approach can remove sepsis-causing pathogens from circulating blood without ever needing to know their identity. In animal studies, treatment with this device...