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Best of: Regenerating and rejuvenating human tissues
Hi everyone, it’s your host Russ. Our team has been working hard on some new episodes and we’ve got one more best-of to share today before we bring you another new guest next week. Last year, I spoke with one of my bioengineering colleagues, Fan Yang about some of the fascinating work she’s doing in the realm of tissue engineering. I hope you’ll take another listen to hear more about the ways her lab is modeling human tissue to help develop a better understanding of how we might effectively replace damaged tissues and alleviate a number of health concerns.
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Best of: How do you build a better robot? By understanding people.
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Hi everyone, it’s your host Russ. We have another best-of for you today - this one is an interview I did with computer scientist and electrical engineer, Dorsa Sadigh. We had a fantastic conversation about the work she’s doing to train robots to better understand humans, and as she shares, it turns out that one key to this work is better understanding human behavior. If you’re like me and curio...
The 2024 William D. Nix Lecture
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The Nix Lecture Series is named in honor of William D. Nix, NAS, NAE, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, and one of the founders of our department in its current form. This year’s William D. Nix Lecture in Materials Science took place on February 5, 2024. Our distinguished speakers were Stanford Professor Stephen Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics and Secretary of Energy ...
Best of: Why AI must embody the values of its users
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We’re bringing back an episode about trust and AI. In a world where the use of Artificial Intelligence is exploding, my guest, computer scientist Carlos Guestrin shares insights from the work he’s doing to support the development of trust between humans and machines. We originally recorded this episode in 2022, but the insights are just as if not more relevant today. We hope you’ll take another...
The future of addiction
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Guest Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and a specialist in the behavioral sciences who studies addiction. While there is tremendous variety in the things people can be addicted to, all forms are tied to dopamine, a biochemical that is key to human senses of pleasure, reward, and motivation. She says that new treatments are combining traditional abstinence with programs that help patients reenergiz...
The future of pediatric pain
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Laura Simons is a clinical psychologist and an authority on pain, particularly chronic pain in childhood, which is much more common than widely understood. Most people don't even think chronic pain happens in children, says Simons. The consequences, however, are serious, ranging from learning gaps from missed school to social isolation and even depression. Better treatment begins with a better ...
The future of computer music
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Ge Wang is a professor of music, a computer scientist, and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra - an orchestra in which human musicians and computers collaborate to make music. “I once thought computer music was abstract and inaccessible, but it can be very playful, too,” he says. Humans and computers making music together, it’s the best of both worlds, Wang tells host Russ Altman on this ...
The future of measuring cancer
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Guest Olivier Gevaert is an expert in multi-modal biomedical data modeling and recently developed new methods in the new science of “spatial transcriptomics” that is able to predict how cancer cells present spatially and will behave in the future. Tumors are not monolithic, he says, but made up of various cell types. Spatial transcriptomics measures cells in the undisturbed organization of the ...
The future of reading
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Rebecca Silverman is an expert in how humans learn to read. It’s a complex process, she says. First we must connect letters and sounds to decode words in texts. Researchers know a lot about the decoding process and how to teach it. But, beyond that, we must also comprehend what the words in texts are conveying. Comprehension is complex, and researchers know much less about the comprehension pro...
The future of culture
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Professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand’s latest book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, explores notions of what she calls “tight” and “loose” cultures, and how each shapes us as individuals and the world around us. Tight cultures closely follow unwritten cultural norms, while those on the looser side have more latitude. Culture is complicated, she says, but understanding its nuances is ...
Best of: What makes a surgeon great?
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Hi everyone, it’s your host Russ here. Today we’re taking you into our archive of over 250 episodes to re-share an interview I did in 2022 with Stanford Medicine Professor of Surgery, Carla Pugh. Performing surgery is profoundly complex and requires precision, dexterity and lots of practice. Dr. Pugh shares about how she’s studying the movements of skilled surgeons to better understand what mak...
The future of bioprinting
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Mark Skylar-Scott is one of the world’s foremost experts on the 3D printing of human tissue, cell by cell. It’s a field better known as bioprinting. But Skylar-Scott hopes to take things to a level most never imagined. He and his collaborators are working to bioprint an entire living, working human heart. We’re printing biology, Skylar-Scott tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford En...
The future of language learning
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Cognitive scientist Michael Frank studies differences in how children and AI learn language. There is a “data gap” between the billions of words ChatGPT has to work with and the millions of words a toddler is exposed to. But, says Frank, children learn in a rich social context that supports their learning. He’s currently conducting the “BabyView Study,” where he puts cameras on young children's...
Best of: Computational modeling can help us understand Alzheimer’s disease
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Hi everyone, it’s your host, Russ. Today, we’re re-running an important episode on Alzheimer’s disease - a topic that touches many people. We still don’t have a complete understanding of the disease and that makes it hard to design effective therapies. In 2022, I sat down with mechanical engineer Ellen Kuhl who offered a glimpse into the way she’s using computational modeling to help improve ou...
The future of immigration
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Ran Abramitzky studies the economic history of immigration by tapping into now-public government records and using AI to chart changing attitudes on immigration captured in written documents and official speeches. What’s revealed is a remarkable story that often diverges from conventional wisdom. Not all streets were paved with gold, Abramitzky tells host Russ Altman, himself a descendant of im...
Best of: The future of art
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Best of: The future of art
The future of digital health
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The future of digital health
Best of: New life for old muscles
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Best of: New life for old muscles
Russ’s Holiday Episode Playlist
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Russ’s Holiday Episode Playlist
Best of: Making sense of the gut biome
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Best of: Making sense of the gut biome
Best of: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health?
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Best of: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health?
The future of AI Chat: Foundation models and responsible innovation
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The future of AI Chat: Foundation models and responsible innovation
The future of ecohydrology
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The future of ecohydrology
Best of: Bendable electronics
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Best of: Bendable electronics
Best of: Developing electronics for the extremes of space
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Best of: Developing electronics for the extremes of space
The future of computational imaging
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The future of computational imaging
Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet
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Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet
Best of: Guided missiles target cancer
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Best of: Guided missiles target cancer
The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of the brain
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The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of the brain
Best of: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?
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Best of: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?