Ground Truths

There has been a big shake-up in the understanding for how our brain ages. Until now, the prevailing belief was that our brain tissue shrinks with age, exemplified by the hippocampus, the region tied to memory and learning, as seen via MRI and other imaging modalities. That the microglia immune cells we were born with (embryonic) were the only types to be found in our brain. ...

Sarah Urbut is a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Research Institute. She and her colleagues published a landmark paper in Nature on patient health journeys for 3 different cohorts—the Mass General Brigham patients, t...

“The future of biology is programmable.”

To give you a sense of how important this topic is, Patrick Hsu is the first guest we’ve had back to Ground Truths since the podcast began a few years ago. Nearly 2 years ago we spoke about digital biology <...