Guests:
Laura Hercher, Host, The Beagle Has Landed
Nathan Pearson, Genomicist; Founder, Root Deep Insight
Chapters:
00:00 How to look at gene therapy in 2019?
06:53 Verve’s preventative gene therapy for heart disease
14:03 Shifts in DTC space: Helix and MyHeritage
25:14 Of barnyards and Burgundies: a smellthrough (link to paper)
30:15 Did you just tie abortion to eugenics, Justice Thomas?
39:33 Gender, sports, and Caster Semenya
Our two reigning champions are back for a month packed with news. It’s Nathan Pearson of Root and Laura Hercher of Sarah Laurence College and Host of The Beagle Has Landed Podcast daring to go where no genomics commentators have gone before.
