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Darwin's Solution: The Companion Podcast

Darwin's Solution: The Companion Podcast

by Animesh Ray

Season 1

Solving the Pandemic: Darwin behind the mRNA vaccine

This episode examines how Darwinian evolutionary theories contributed to understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and, eventually to defeating it with mRNA vaccines.

The Evolving Pandemic

This episode explains how we had anticipated, using Darwinian logic, a pandemic, not in its exact form but in some form, at least 7 years before it actually came, but had failed to respond appropriately..

The Absurd Pandemic

Albert Camus, the Nobel-winning author of The Plague and a foremost proponent of existentialism, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, both inventors of polio vaccines, and Francis Crick, often called the smartest biologist of the century, are having a dinner party, discussing the pandemic and viral evolution.

How Do Flies Teach Us About Our Diseases?

Darwinian evolution posits that all living organisms are related by kinship. This allows a grand unification--a gene that influences a human disease might also do something important in flies, worms or baker's yeast. We therefore study these genes to discover their functions, then infer their possible functions in human diseases.

On Measures and Mismeasures of Kinship

This AI-generated podcast is taking place in a parallel universe. Here are three giants: T. H. Huxley, known as Darwin's Bulldog, J. B. S. Haldane, reputed to be the smartest biologist of the 20th century, and Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard Naturalist who became an evangelist for Darwinian Evolution in the late 20th century. They gossip about how to measure the likenesses of genes and proteins, and most of all, why care?

Evolution Within Us--How Darwin Helped Build the Immune System

This episode explains how the human immune system is a micro-evolutionary system occurring within the human body. A simple idea that triggered a billion-dollar immunotherapy industry.

The Marvelous World of Immunity

This episode describes an otherworldly meeting that explores the idea that the human immune system is really evolution on a racing car.

On Aging and DNA Ends

Why do we age? The answer lies in the heart of Darwin's theory of evolution. Can we reverse aging?

On Nimble Youth and Age's Wisdom

Why haven't we evolved to retain the grace of our youth in the last of our lives? On a seaside bench, Darwin, Epicurus, and Rosalind Franklin are discussing this riddle of biology.

How Darwin Transformed Cancer Therapy

Fifty years ago, cancer was a death sentence for most patients. Today, not quite so for most in the Western world. This episode explores the underlying principles that drove a paradigm shift in cancer treatment and how Darwinian processes are behind this transformative change.

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