It happens to all of us – car keys go mysteriously missing or a name on the tip of your tongue can’t be recalled. One of these moments of forgetfulness gets Brett wondering about more serious forms of memory loss, like dementia or Alzheimer’s d

Episode 5: A Moving Target - The Complexity of Pediatric Cancer Research

Sep 19th, 2018 29m 45s

Brett’s west coast road trip continues as he travels to Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie company, to speak with a pediatric oncologist turned researcher. While the topic is instantly sobering, Brett still has a multitude of questions: does cancer act d

Episode 4: Mission Immuno-possible - The Cancer-Fighting Secret Agent

Aug 28th, 2018 30m 13s

Brett heads out to California to meet with a specialist in immuno-oncology, but even her job title makes him wonder: what does the immune system have to do with cancer? Does this have something to do with these CAR-T cells he keeps hearing abou

Episode 3: The Borax Method of Drug Discovery

Jan 25th, 2018 25m

One look at the back of a Borax box makes Brett wonder: how can one product do so many different things? Can medicines serve more than one purpose too? How could one medicine treat multiple diseases in totally different parts of the body? And h

Episode 2: Getting Crispy with CRISPR!

Oct 5th, 2017 26m 20s

It seems the term CRISPR is all over the news these days. But what exactly is CRISPR? Is it a game-changing technology in the field of gene editing? An entrée into a real-life Jurassic World? Or the description of what happens when you leave a

Episode 1: Gummies & Injections & Capsules … Oh My!

Jul 6th, 2017 25m 57s

We hear so much about how new drugs are discovered, but how exactly do they go from molecular form to drug delivery system? And who decides if a medicine comes in yummy gummy form, or in a pill? Brett just doesn’t get it.In our pilot episode,

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