Welcome to Discovery Matters Podcast
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast! Discovery Matters is a collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life sciences. Now available on iTunes, Spotify and other platforms of your choice.
Your hosts are Dodi Axelson and Conor McKechnie, friends for gloriously long years and colleagues at GE Healthcare Life Sciences. They meet university professors, surgeons, and biotech engineers to discuss what happens when science meets technology, and when knowledge meets passion.
Season 1 is a collection of carefully crafted stories that explore the complex world of life sciences, while touching upon unimaginable breakthroughs that revolutionized healthcare.
Episode 1: Tea and jam and protein separation
Dodi and Conor discover how jam played a part in paving the way for biopharmaceutical drugs. 60 years ago, Swedish scientists happened upon a new method of protein separation through chromatography. The very same technique continues to be the foundation for modern biomedical manufacturing.
Episode 2: Chinese hamster, gratitude and medical research
Little did you know, but a single hamster has been a force of innovation and massive biomedical production. Scientists devote entire careers to so called CHO cells from this Chinese hamster’s ovary. Dodi and Conor meet a couple of them to figure out why this hamster rules the biopharma world.
Episode 3: Kidney surgeon who fixes the plumbing
The list of people needing kidney transplants is tragically long, and donor lists are desperately short. Conor and Dodi find scientists who are coming up with alternative solutions to this problem. Some enable transplantation of less-than-perfect organs, and others dream of 3D printing important organs.
Stay tuned!
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