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  1. Science 2034 Podcast: RPI's Deepak Vashishth, PhD

    11/04/2015

    Science 2034 Podcast: RPI's Deepak Vashishth, PhD

    Proteins are the fabric of our lives. The human body and its microbiota potentially produce millions of proteins. With time, these proteins get modified, inactivated, damaged, or under- or over- produced. Therein lies the hazards and hopes. Deepak Vashishth, PhD is Director of the Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in recognition of his groundbreaking bone research. His work, and that of the CBIS, has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.

    9 min

  2. 07/01/2015

    Science 2034 LIVE: Congressional Briefing

    Whether your idea of the future leans more toward flying cars or flying to Mars, you’ll want to hear from Science 2034 Live panelists who believe, as result of research being performed today, that the next 20 years will bring some amazing changes. From nanoparticles patrolling our bodies to warn us of health risks to driverless solar-powered cars and a pill to treat Alzheimer’s, these scientists have big ideas and are pursuing research that just might transform our lives.

    57 min

  3. 06/05/2015

    Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Timothy L. Grove

    Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Timothy L. Grove by The Science Coalition

    9 min

  4. 06/05/2015

    Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Mary Gehring

    Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Mary Gehring by The Science Coalition

    19 min

  5. 06/03/2015

    Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Chris A. Kaiser

    Our guest is Chris Kaiser, the chair of MIT's biology department, to talk about the future of fighting infectious diseases, and the importance of basic scientific research in this area. His essay appears in his MIT's new report, "THE FUTURE POSTPONED: Why Declining Investment in Basic Research Threatens a U.S. Innovation Deficit."

    19 min

  6. 10/08/2014

    Science 2034 Podcast: Harvesting the Fuels of the Future

    By the year 2034, we will be able to produce biofuels efficiently, economically and on a scale such that they make up a meaningful portion of liquid transportation fuels and chemical products in the United States. We will do this by using biomass, the parts of plants that are ineffectively used today. The impact that this will have on our environment, national security, economic security and even our food security is significant. Biofuels are created when plant material is broken down into simple sugars and those sugars are converted by microbes into fuels. While ethanol and some other biofuels are being produced today, the process is not particularly efficient. In the case of ethanol, the current process for converting plant sugars into fuel is only about 80 percent efficient. So an additional 25 percent more ethanol could potentially be produced. Additionally, most microbes prefer glucose, but there are other sugars present in plants that can be converted to fuel. We just need to figure out how to get the microbes to eat these less desirable sugars. It’s a little bit like when you serve your children a plate of food and they gobble up their French fries, but leave the broccoli and tomatoes.

    12 min

  7. 09/24/2014

    Science 2034 Podcast: The “Smart” Room of the Future

    Maxine D. Brown is Director of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, responsible for fundraising, outreach, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. Her research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, collaboration, human-computer interfaces, and high-performance computing and international network infrastructure. EVL receives funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, NASA, the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General’s Office, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

    6 min

  8. 09/10/2014

    Science 2034 Podcast: Restoring Brain Function Stolen by Disease and Trauma

    Leo M. Chalupa, Ph.D. is the Vice President for Research at the George Washington University. He is a neurobiologist and researcher on the retina, visual pathways and development of vision. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Fogarty Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Human Frontier Science Foundation, and other funding agencies.

    10 min
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Podcast by The Science Coalition

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  • Creator
    The Science Coalition
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2015
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
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