While some investors want to take a space ship to the moon (which we understand) Orthogonal thinker wants to be able to swim in a clean ocean. They believe success and…
Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine, as well as the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. D’Agostino’s focus of teaching…
Dr. Cory Kidd is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health. Dr. Kidd has been working in healthcare technology for nearly two decades. The focus of his work has been applying…
Xcellbio has developed a proprietary cell control system for use in research, drug development and regenerative medicine. The founders discuss their work in the control of tumor cells, stem cells and…
Perry Marshall, noted science author of Evolution 2.0, and electrical engineer by trade, leads us on an interesting journey through the science and theory of life itself. Marshall states that we…
Dr. David Benrimoh, CEO and CMO of Aifred Health (aifred health.com), a mental health AI company, provides an interesting overview of the complexities within the mental health branch of medicine and…
While we might not yet be able to levitate objects by simply using our brainwaves, the rigorous study of brainwaves has certainly led to some astounding developments. Dr. Christoph Guger, CEO…
Kidney failure? No problem. Need a new heart? Check, working on it. Let’s just head on over to the 3D printer and print one up and send you on your way.…
Vertical farming is a practice that involves the cultivation of crops on multiple levels in a fully enclosed environment equipped with optimal artificial lighting and an optimal atmosphere. The results? Fresher,…
Arvind Gupta began his career as a genetic engineer before entering industrial design, where he learned the process of productizing technology. Gupta has implemented what he’s learned in his current role…
Alex Savtchenko, a research scientist with the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine at the University of California, San Diego delivers a detailed overview of the many uses for the wonder material…
JUST is a high-tech, cutting-edge sustainable food company, using plant-based proteins to create nutritious, affordable, and cruelty-free food options. Dedicated to implementing a more sustainable food system across the globe, JUST…
As a professor of biogerontology at the University of Brighton, Richard Farragher has served as Chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing and the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology.…
Kurt Schmidinger, founder of Future Food, an internet-oriented initiative based out of Austria takes us on a lively discussion of the foods we eat and the future of our diets. Future…
Skin, many of us don’t give it much thought, but just like the heart and lungs, skin is an important organ too. In fact, our skin has seven layers of ectodermal…
Allison Berke is an academic advisor at The Good Food Institute, a non-profit organization working on the transition from factory-farmed animal products to plant-based and clean meat alternatives. By taking a…
Self-described Genomics Ninja Jedi, Ardy Arianpour, is now CEO & Co-Founder at Seqster, a consumer driven healthcare technology platform. They are using AI to allow people to aggregate their electronic health,…
Clay and Maddie Guillory, CEO and CMO husband and wife team join Future Tech Podcast to discuss their company Titan Robotics. Titan Robotics is a designer and manufacturer of large scale…
Sarcos robotics is combining human intelligence, instinct and judgment with robotic strength, endurance and precision to augment worker performance and keep humans out of harm’s way. Reducing Occupational Injuries is a…
Pendo’s overall mission is to make work easier for product managers. Co-founder Eric Boduch discusses Pendo’s product cloud and how it was created. A product created out of pure necessity for…
Ana Maiques is the CEO of NeuroElectrics. The company’s mission is to change the way we interact with the brain by developing innovative technologies that monitor and stimulate the brain. Ana…
Shivom’s mission is to be the largest genomic data-hub on the planet. Contributors own their genomic data, control the right to access it, and receive rewards is they choose to share…
Founded in 2008, American CryoStem Corporation is a biotechnology pioneer, standardizing adipose tissue derived technologies for the fields of Regenerative and Personalized Medicine. CRYO is dedicated to supporting patients, and families…
Transformative Tech Lab is an incubator. Co-Founder & Executive Director Nichol Bradford states that they believe in changing the world by helping engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs realize their dream of creating…
Alcyone is committed to developing biologically inspired and clinically relevant patient solutions. These solutions are meant to significantly enhance current treatments for patients with chronic neuropathological conditions. PJ Anand discusses Alcyone’s…
NeuroOrrb is focused on optimal health performance. Their process starts with brain health, using a structured approach to reducing stress hormones. This improves overall brain health, physical performance and brain processing…
It can take months from the time that a traditional supplement is produced to the time that it hits store shelves. This is problematic because vitamins degrade and lose their potency…
With the advent and increasing use of fertilizer in industrialized agriculture, symbioses between crops and their nitrogen-fixing microbes (which have been evolving for billions of years) are losing their strength. The…
“Everyone probably hears online that no one ever dies from cannabis, but there have been cases of people dying from what grows on cannabis,” says Kevin McKernan, who founded Medicinal Genomics…
Sought after guest speaker, Aubrey de Grey, has appeared on numerous popular programs including CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, TED and The Colbert Report to name just a few. Today, he joins…
Axial biotherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing new therapeutics to treat diseases of the central nervous system. According to Dr. David Donabedian, CEO, and co-founder, researchers hope to leverage the link…
Fluid-Screen is a powerful startup with a focus on benefiting the world by creating a product that produces faster, less costly and more accurate lab testing results in the palm of…
Phage therapy is the next generation of medical treatment against bacterial infections, according to Jonathan Solomon, CEO of BiomX and may hold to key to curing chronic diseases such as inflammatory…
EpiBiome, a microbiome engineering company based in San Francisco, is busy developing next generation antibacterials to fight a real problem; the growing threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Their focus is also…
The majority of research on the cause and treatment of ageing-related diseases has focused on the role of DNA in the ageing process. However, this area of research has proven to…
Human Breast milk packs some of nature’s most powerful ingredients. Sugarlogix, a small bio-tech company is using yeast fermentation and synthetic biology to recreate a group of complex sugars only found…
Gregory Kuehn is the co-founder and COO of Metabiomics, a company that has been developing tools and techniques for analyzing the human gut microbiome for the last 15 years. Their primary…
One of the more overlooked but still highly important parts of the body is the skin microbiome. Though there are less types of organisms present in the skin microbiome than in…
Viome was founded on the idea that we should be able to use science and technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, and personal health is one of the…
BioNyfiken, which means “bio curiosity” in Swedish, is a community of bio-hackers who are interested in exploring how technology and biology can interact in the modern world. They are perhaps most…
Imagine having a source of low-cost, basic nutrition growing indefinitely on your own countertop. “Think of it like a Keurig for nutrition…way more nutritious than the fruits and vegetables in your…
What the browser was to the Internet, Jaxx is intended to be for Blockchain. COO of Jaxx, Charlie Shrem, explains. “Instead of using four or five different apps on your iPhone…
More effective prevention and management of common diseases, better overall health care at lower costs, fewer visits to doctor’s offices, and earlier discharges from hospitals: how can we make this a…
Why and how do mice age differently from elephants? Why do humans age differently from both? What is the limit of human longevity and can it be increased? If so, how?…
Since the 80’s, Jan Vijg has been fascinated with the process of aging. This, having heard a fascinating talk on the subject back when he was a student at the University…
In today’s world, all the data from medical imaging is handled at a local level—the hospital level. For physicians, and especially radiologists, this is a constrained environment. There aren’t enough resources…
Early land plants didn’t have leaves. At a certain point, they evolved. In fact, the anatomy found in C4 leaves evolved 60 times, and leaves themselves evolved at least twice but…
Denis Noble CBE FRS FRCP FMedSci has a veritable alphabet soup after his name. It’s kind of hard to pronounce, and it always becomes a point of conversation for him. But…
Do you have trouble falling asleep at night because your mind won’t shut off? Do your thoughts constantly wander? Do your body and mind show signs of stress overload? If you…
Senescent cells play a uniquely dual role in the body: in the younger stages of life, they are crucial in helping heal wounds, yet later in life, they contribute to certain…
Just like you can go to the gym to train your body, you can also learn exercises to train your brain. These brain workouts are clinically proven to improve memory and…
The Human Genome Project took 13 years and cost 3 billion dollars. That was for just one human genome. Now the cost of DNA-sequencing has fallen dramatically. You can do human…
As a teenager, Robin Farmanfarmaian was mis-diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. All told, she ended up having forty-three hospitalizations, six surgeries, and three organs removed. For a mis-diagnosis. Seriously. Having gone…
How do you feed 7 billion people? How do you grow that much food? That’s the question that confronts plant biologists. Over the past sixty years, our understanding of genetics has…
Imagine this: you’re out with friends, and you’re contemplating another glass of wine despite the fact that you feel a bug coming on. Normally, you’d make a spontaneous decision based on…
What if was possible to turn your body’s cells into mini computers and then program them to kill cancer? According to synthetic biologist, Wilson Wong, it’s not only a very real…
We’re living in an age where not only can DNA be synthesized, but it can be applied as a technology. The applications of DNA are manifold, and some, never-before-seen. TwistBioScience creates…
Previously, the only way to see cells inside brain matter was to dissect a corpse’s brain and put it under a microscope. Not so useful if you’re a brain disease patient…
Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. This, especially in the aging population: you reach a certain age, and you can’t see as well as before. Up until this…
Imagine having a spinal cord injury that prevents you from performing everyday tasks without assistance. Though your brain is still intact, you can’t hold and sip your morning coffee or even…
John Donahue, head of marketing at Cirrus Healthcare, who explains how their product Migraine X is fighting and controlling migraines. Around 38 million people in the US suffer from a migraine.…
Dina Zielinski from NY Genome talks about storing data using DNA – not traditional hard drives – and it’s amazing what nature can do that human engineering (until now) can not.…
Terracycle is back, and this time we have its CEO, Tom Szaky. Terracycle has rapidly become an innovative recycling company and global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. From recycling #7 plastic…
Tiffany Vora an Educator, Writer, Research Scientist, and Entrepreneur who is excited to bring her diversity of experience to Singularity University as Principal Faculty in Medicine and Digital Biology. Tiffany explains…
Cynata Therapeutics is an Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company that is creating a therapeutic stem cell platform technology, Cymerus™, using discoveries made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr Kilian…
Chris Berka of Advanced Brain Monitoring talks to us about how they have challenged the orthodox thinking by creating advanced medical devices that provide a superior patient experience, lower healthcare costs,…
TerraCycle is removing the idea of Waste by recycling the non-recyclable multi layered composite type plastics. Whether its baby diapers (6% of the total landfill), tires, juice pouches, candy wrappers or…
Kyle Silvestro, Founder & CEO of SyTrue™ has been working on natural language processing for medical applications for the last decade. He talks about how clinical natural language processing translates unstructured…
Walid Soussou the CEO, talks about QUASAR’s involvement in previous Department of Defense and DARPA programs that shaped groundbreaking new dry sensor technology for bio-electric calculations through hair, off the skin,…
Vericred is a healthcare tech and data company that delivers data solutions to health insurance industry partners. This coupling results in lower costs and faster speeds to the end consumer looking…
VistaGen Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company concentrating on developing new generation medicines for depression and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The lead CNS product candidate, AV-101, is a new…
CureCoin is a CryptoCurrency based around Folding@Home that lets owners of both ASIC and GPU/CPU hardware to earn cure coins as a reward for mining (mining meaning giving computer time and…
Muse is a sensing headband and brain fitness tool that measures brain signals much like a heart rate monitor senses your heartbeat. Muse’s 7 finely calibrated sensors; 2 on the forehead,…
NeuroSky technologies allow people to use wellness bio-metrics for mobile solutions including wearable devices. Their advanced biosensors, bio-metric algorithms, reference designs, and Big Data analytics enable leading-edge innovation in mHealth products…
Smart Glasses are made of glycerin-filled, liquid lenses that can automatically adjust the focus on what a person is seeing, whether it is far away or close up. The lenses are…
Jan Witowski a medical student, talks to us about 3D liver modeling and how it helps surgeons do pre-surgical planning on patients with liver tumors by providing them a 3d printed…
Invitrx Therapeutics have advanced into a far-reaching but intensive biotechnology firm that concentrates on the commercialization of Adult Stem Cell technology. Habib Torfi talks about initiating from science based wound healing…
RepliCel is a regenerative medicine company focused on developing autologous cell therapies (using your own cells to heal you) that address conditions such as pattern baldness, damaged or aged skin, and…
US Stem Cell Inc. is the world leader in research & development of stem cell as well as regenerative medicine treatments for patients with degenerative conditions. Chief Science Officer of US…
PluriCell is a biotechnology based company whose goal is to become a continuous, reliable, commercial source of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). With these type of cells, they can virtually…
Celyad is a biopharmaceutical company, specialized in cell therapy, developing landmark technologies aimed at treating severe diseases with poor prognoses. Their scientific approach is inspired by the natural mechanisms that are…
Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company revolutionizing the arena of regenerative medicine. Their proprietary cell therapy programs are based on immunotherapy and pluripotent stem cell platform technologies. Jane Lebkowski, CSO…
Xabian tech specializes in designing and 3D manufacturing prosthetic lower limbs and sockets. Xabian works by analyzing a 3D scan of the residual limb, and then designing the best fitting prostheses…
Co-founder and CEO of BioBots, Danny Cabrera, joins us to talk about the technology and advancements in 3D bioprinting and the future of this fascinating industry. BioBots is building tools to…
3DBio is researching and bringing to market bio printing technologies for the generation and transplantation of tissues, including multilayered skin, bone, vascular grafts, tracheal splints, heart tissue and cartilaginous structures. Yousef…
The average prosthetic leg cost thirty thousand dollars, it takes several weeks to make and wears out in less than 5 years. TriFusion can make a custom prosthetic device in hours…
