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Send us Fan Mail Nuclear power has a scale problem: conventional plants are enormous, expensive projects that can take years to build. Hadron Energy wants to take a different approach with a factory-manufactured, 10-megawatt light-water microreactor. But can a smaller reactor actually mean lower costs, simpler deployment and credible safety? Sam Gibson is Founder and CEO of Hadron Energy ( https://www.hadronenergy.com/ ), a company developing the Halo Micro-Modular Reactor, a proposed ...

Send us Fan Mail The world doesn't have a shortage of promising medical discoveries. The real challenge is turning those discoveries into safe, effective, accessible treatments. What separates a breakthrough idea from a successful therapy? How could AI change the economics of drug development? And can regenerative medicine move healthcare beyond managing disease toward restoring damaged tissue? Today, we're tackling these questions with pharmaceutical executive and biotech entrepreneur Dr. St...

Send us Fan Mail What if we stopped thinking about antibodies as simply drugs that bind to one target - and started thinking about them as engineered molecular machines? Today we're talking about a bispecific antibody that targets both EGFR and LGR5, and asking whether that kind of antibody engineering could actually change the treatment landscape for head and neck cancer. Dr. Tahamtan Ahmadi, MD, Ph.D. is Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Experimental Medicines at ...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you're 19 years old, physically fit, a collegiate wrestler, and you suddenly find yourself hospitalized for three days with influenza? Today's guest, Zachery Lang, experienced exactly that - and his story offers an important perspective on a disease many of us underestimate. Zachery Lang ( https://familiesfightingflu.org/family-story/the-lang-family/ ) is a student at Indiana University and a former collegiate wrestler whose experience with influenza dramat...

Send us Fan Mail Homelessness, addiction, mental health, aging and incarceration are often treated as separate problems. But for the people experiencing them, they're frequently connected. What would it take to build a system that sees the whole person - and could emerging technology help us get there? Ericka Fusilier is Executive Vice President of External Affairs at VOA ( https://www.voa.org/ - formerly known as Volunteers of America ) - one of America's oldest and largest huma...