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Podcast recap: Sek Kathiresan on developing gene editing for cardiovascular disease

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Sekar (Sek) Kathiresan, CEO of Verve Therapeutics and SVP, Head of Obesity Res...
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Podcast recap: Luke Pilling on why a genotype is only the starting point

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short is joined by Dr. Luke Pilling, Senior Lecturer in Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Exeter....
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Podcast recap: James Zou on what 37,000 AI agents learned about why drug trials fail

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short speaks with Dr. James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Universi...
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Podcast recap: Jenny Hsieh on why women with Danon disease are being missed

Danon disease is X-linked, and much of the research to date has focused on males. In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick is joined by Jenny Hsie...
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Podcast recap: Jeffrey Barrett on the chronic disease subtypes hiding in plain sight

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick is joined by Dr. Jeffrey Barrett, Professor of Computational Predictive Medicine at the University of Hel...
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Podcast recap: Inigo Martincorena on somatic evolution in healthy tissue

Every cell in the body picks up changes to its DNA over a lifetime. For most of the history of cancer genomics, researchers could only read those changes once a...
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Podcast recap: Marleah Dean Kruzel on reframing hereditary cancer uncertainty

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick sits down with Dr. Marleah Dean Kruzel, Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. He...
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Podcast recap: Dave Hallett on cutting through the AI hype in drug discovery

In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short sat down with Dr. Dave Hallett, Chief Scientific Officer at Recursion. Dave has spent nearly t...
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Podcast recap: Danny Miller on making long-read sequencing the first test every patient receives

Most patients with a suspected genetic condition still move through testing one layer at a time. A panel checks a set of genes, a separate assay looks for a rep...
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Podcast recap: Brent Richards on how genetic evidence can de-risk drug targets

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short sits down with Dr. Brent Richards, CEO and founder of 5 Prime Sciences and Professor of Human Genet...
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