On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Science Journalist Ben Goldfarb about his book, “Crossing: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet.” Then, Dave Pacitti, President of Siemens Healthineers, sets out to solve problems greater than simply supplying the best technology.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the Founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly is here with “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then, Dr Lishan Aklo, CEO of Lucid Diagnostics, tells us about the path from heartburn to oesophagal cancer and about their two-minute diagnostic test, which can detect precancerous cells.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Andrew Allen, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist Alex Pang describes Continuous Partial Attention,  thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.

In this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Gabriella Kellerman joins me to talk about “TomorrowMind – Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future”. The cover everything from Rapid Rapport to Psychological Safety in our work environment. Then … what is AI doing in biotech? Dr Vimal Mehta tells us how his company, BioXcel, used AT in drug discovery. One drug has already been approved, and there are more in the pipeline.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Peter Vanderklish, CSO of Spinogenix, focuses on regenerating brain synapses to combat conditions like depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and ALS. Then, Dr. Caitlin Rivers from John Hopkins School of Public Health talks about her book, “Crisis Averted… The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks.”

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Shannon Monaghan, a Military Historian, about her book, “A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men … The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II”. Then, Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress, tells us about their FDA, EU, and Australia-cleared, first-ever Sepsis test. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about Food as Medicine and an official federal program called Food is Medicine.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, who talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Then, Dr. Pail Peter Tak, CEO of Candel Therapeutics, uses immuno-oncology treatments to treat solid tumours and metastasized cancers.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Chris Bailey about “How to Calm Your Mind … Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times”. Science tells us that humans love dopamine, caffeine is essentially liquid stress, and burnout is more than being exhausted. Then, teaching our immune systems to recognize tumours in our own bodies and then eliminate them. Bolt Biotherapeutics’ CEO, Dr. Randy Schatzman, talks about the role of myeloid cells, and Bolt is studying nearly two dozen forms of HER2-related cancers.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s looked at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He travelled to China with an eye to understanding the circumstances of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University Professor of Computer Science about his book, “AI Snake Oil … What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference” Then, Dr. Avak Kahvejian, Founding CEO of Cellarity joins me to explain how comparing healthy and diseased cells, along with our understanding of medications, could help treat that disease at its source.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and author of, “Pivot or Die… How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes” about what you do when faced with change, and when you better get out and make some change. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft about generative AI and how it may affect your future health