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The Future of Everything

Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t

Episodes

Total: 329

In cancer detection, could a blood test replace a biopsy? Once, when a cancer was suspected, the ne

Women face many roadblocks to careers in data science and other STEM disciplines. One Stanford profe

How do new technologies and techniques for altering DNA get used? And who gets to use them? In rec

An expert on air quality talks about the hidden dangers inside our homes and offers some helpful tip

A mechanical engineer explains how more and better data is helping to create new prosthetics unlike

Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything, the future of the microbiome. Now, the microbiome h

Once the core American curriculum meant reading, writing and arithmetic, but Stanford professor Mehr

Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything the future of Silicon Valley. Periodically, in human

Biomedical data scientist Sylvia Plevritis is an expert in computational modeling of cancer risk an

Computers are everywhere and humans are engaging with them in nearly everything they do. Knowing thi

Political scientist Jeremy Weinstein has worked at both the White House and the United Nations. In b

Once avoidance was the only answer, but a leading allergist says that advances in desensitizing alle

Can we reap the benefits of artificial intelligence while also protecting our personal information?

In-depth statistical analyses show time and again that subtle, unconscious bias is pervasive in the

When Stanford’s Paul Yock was a young interventional cardiologist, he was frustrated by the complex,

Margaret Brandeau may carry a business card that reads Professor of Management Science and Engineeri

By last count, there are 5,000 genetic diseases in the human body. A few are merely annoying, but fa

Brain cancers are known to be elusive and clever killers, but Michelle Monje, associate professor of

The current process for diagnosing autism requires no less than 10 hours of intensive doctor-to-pati

Mechanical engineer Xiaolin Zheng really likes to burn things, but she is more like a modern-day Pro