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Raising Health
A myriad of AI, science, and technology experts explore the real challenges and enormous opportunities facing entrepreneurs who are building the future of health. Raising Health, a podcast by a16z Bio + Health, dives deep into the heart of biotechnology and healthcare innovation. Join veteran company builders, operators, and investors Vineeta Agarwala, Julie Yoo, and Jorge Conde, along with distinguished guests like Mark Cuban, Greg Verdine, Fei-Fei Li, and Suchi Saria, as they explore the…
Episodes
Raising HealthThe Cost Disease in Healthcare
with @pmarca and @vijaypande How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics…
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Journal Club: How to Win an Evolutionary Arms Race
Viruses (like HIV) and their hosts (like humans) are locked in an evolutionary arms race, with each trying to outwit the other. But viruses seem to have a big…
Raising HealthThe Google Maps Moment in (Modeling) Biology
You don't have to build a million planes to test a million aeronautical designs; we have mathematical simulations and models that do that for us. But in…
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Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth
Infertility is a common struggle with limited treatment options, particularly if caused by an issue with the uterus. On this episode of Journal Club host…
Raising HealthThe Story of Schizophrenia
Descriptions of the mental illness we today call schizophrenia are as old as humankind itself. And more than likely, we are are all familiar with this disease…
Raising HealthFood as Medicine
We all know that eating healthy is better for you—and that following that advice is far harder than it sounds, for a multitude of reasons, from culture to…
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Journal Club: Decoding Developmental Disorders
Approximately half of all severe developmental disorders are caused by de novo (new, not inherited) mutations in protein-coding genes. But which genes? In this…
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Health—at What Price?
Imagine if the airline industry did not post prices for flights in advance. What if instead of posting fares on travel sites, airlines argued they could only…
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Journal Club: Defeating Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease with no cure and challenging treatment regimes. The disease is characterized by self-reactive immune cells that attack…
Raising HealthWe, the Patients
Healthcare is perhaps unique in that the entire system exists entirely to serve the patient... and yet, in many ways, that same patient is not the customer. In…
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Journal Club: Architecting an Aggressive Cancer
Mechanical forces and architecture may not sound very "bio", but they are key tools of epidermal stem cells. These stem cells essentially engineer their…
Raising HealthThe Thermodynamics of Life
with @lifelikephysics, @vijaypande, and @omnivorousread Where does life truly begin? How do we understand the fundamental nature of what is “alive” and what is…
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Journal Club: From Insect Eyes to Nanomaterials
On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, a16z bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and host Lauren Richardson discuss a new article that makes the…
Raising HealthIt's Time to Build in Healthcare: COVID-19, Innovation, and What Comes Next
In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to discuss the large scale…
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Journal Club: Reversing Parkinson's with New Neurons
Neurons do not divide or replicate, so how can we replace neurons killed by neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease? On the Bio Eats World Journal…
Raising HealthThe Biology of Pain
Why do we experience physical pain? Is all pain the same, or are there different types? Do people experience pain differently? Professor of Neurobiology at…
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Journal Club: Super-Scaling COVID-19 Testing with DNA Sequencing
There is a wide range of diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that are all well suited for determining whether an individual patient is sick with the virus. But to…
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Biology by Design
We’re at the dawn of a new era where we’re truly able to design biology: from genetically engineered cotton, to meat made from plants, to incredibly complex…
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Journal Club: Turning a Toxin into a Genome Editing Tool
Over the past 15 years we have made huge advances in our ability to engineer the genome, meaning that we now have the ability to edit DNA in a programmable and…
Raising HealthGoing Back to the Workplace in a Pandemic
It's not normal to talk to your employer about the details of your health: your current temperature, who you've been exposed to, whether your kid is sick…
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Journal Club: Modeling Mysterious Brain Structures
The human brain is endlessly fascinating and mysterious, but the majority of brain research to date has focused on neurons and their functions. While the other…
Raising HealthRevolutions in Cancer Treament—Past, Present, and Future
with @JorgeCondeBio, @JLimMD, @AmerCancerCEO, and @omnivorousread In this episode of Bio Eats World, we explore all the major revolutions in cancer treatment…
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Journal Club: Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins
In Bio Eats World's Journal Club episodes, we discuss groundbreaking research articles, why they matter, what new opportunities they present, and how to take…
Raising HealthThe Biology of Aging
with @LauraDeming, @kpfortney, @vijaypande, and @omnivorousread Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is…
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Introducing "Bio Eats World"
This new show, from the same team that produces the popular a16z Podcast, will be all about how biology today is where technology was 50 years ago: on the…