Nature Medicine Podcast

A special focus section highlights the barriers ahead to translating basic discoveries in stem cell biology into regenerative therapies.

We discuss new techniques for supercooling organs, for imaging eye disease and for studying cancer-causing mutations.

We discuss the revitalizing effects of young blood and how exome sequencing could help guide personalized cancer treatments.

We discuss ways to optimize treatment schedules in oncology and how antibiotic use in infants could be contributing to life-threatening infections.

Why drug therapy might be helpful for HIV controllers and a new blood test that can diagnose Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms arise.

We discuss a rapid technique for diagnosing Staph aureus, and look at the impact of large-scale visualization labs on biomedicine.

We talk with Jeremy Farrar, the new director of the Wellcome Trust, and Juan Carlos López, outgoing Chief Editor of Nature Medicine.

We speak with the incoming chief of the NIH alcohol institute and examine how to target self-renewal in cancer stem cells.

We talk with the founders of shared lab facilities and ask why genetic differences in blood clotting may underlie racial disparities in heart disease.

Hedgehog inhibitors show promise in combination therapy for brain cancer and as new way to treat a bone condition called heterotopic ossification.

A two-drug combo guards against the deadly MERS virus in monkeys, and a set of naturally occurring immune cells could form the basis of a universal flu vaccine in people.

We discuss why migraine aura is so difficult to trigger in the lab, and how a newly discovered compound could help in the fight against tuberculosis.

Reaching for the SARS: We explore why a promising vaccine for SARS is proving difficult to advance further and new strategies aimed at halting the progression of Alzheimer's and diabetes.

Stopping a killer: Neuroscience in the age of cyborgs and a cure for the number one genetic killer of infants.

Medicine to the masses: How the 2012 election will affect biomedical research, and a new way to boost vaccine effectiveness in the elderly.

Smell test for gene therapy: Gene therapy fixes olfactory function in mice and a computer model helps predict antiviral drug resistance in people.

Nurses on trial: Why nurses struggle to lead clinical trials and how a newly discovered immune cell could aid in the fight against cancer.

Strike a cord: A robotic device helps rats recover from spinal cord injury and a biodegradable material offers a new way to make artery grafts.

Talk of the brown: We discuss how to turn white fat into brown fat and a new species-spanning approach to biomedicine.

With bated breath: Asthma unraveled, why hospital staph infections are so deadly and the latest on future treatments for sudden-onset hearing loss.