disease

Funding the Cure: But For Whom?

Eleanor Ho

January 31, 2020

medical research, peter bach, disease, medicine, health, pharmaceuticals

Drug companies often focus on finding cures for rare diseases, rather than common ones. Read More...

J. Craig Venter and the Future of Biology

Kara Miller and Amanda McGowan

December 20, 2013

immunology, genomics, biology, Body and Mind, J. Craig Venter, vaccines, disease, health, Sci and Tech

J. Craig Venter, author of "Life at the Speed of Light," went from surfer dude to one of the first scientists to sequence the human genome. Now he's working on changing our biology. Read more...

The Vaccine Challenge

Kara Miller and Amanda McGowan

July 19, 2013

Sci and Tech, Body and Mind, vaccines, health care, disease, health, disease prevention

This week, Innovation Hub is all about altruism in business. Meet one CEO who walks the walk: Michael Schrader of Vaxess Technologies, a company that uses silk protein to stabilize the temperature of vaccines so they can be shipped across the globe without refrigeration. In other words, with Schrader’s help, some of the 2.5 million people who die annually of preventable diseases could be saved using the fiber in your bedsheets.