We find all the cool academic innovations so you don't have to. Sponsored and produced by UNeMed, the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
What’s light as plastic, strong as steel and less expensive per pound than the chassis of an Italian sportscar? Carbon fiber reinforced polymers, duh! Join the Overground as they extend their tour of the mind-bending world of materials science to the juncture of additive manufacturing, uncompromising structural rigidity and sustainable sourcing. It’s the only podcast in your feed that will point you in the general direction of building your own Pontiac Fiero chassis from locally sourced organic ingredients. Featured Technologies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admt.201600084; https://patents.google.com/patent/US10406750B2/en?q=%22carbon+fiber+reinforced+polymers%22&assignee=university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180118901A1/en?q=%22carbon+fiber+reinforced+polymers%22&assignee=university+&page=1; https://www.antiquesnavigator.com/archive/2017/04/21/132158679285.jpg Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join us as we explore further innovation involving sheets of carbon – rolled up into a delicious churro of nearly infinite reinforcing strength: carbon nanotubes. It’s awesome rebar, it’s the business end of a molecular analyzer, its formed from advanced chemical deposition, and scientists are cranking it out – by the centimeter. Featured Technologies: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/introduction/introduction_to_nanotechnology_22.php; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191213142422.htm; https://patents.google.com/patent/US9896340B2/en?q=(%22carbon+nanotubes%22+%2fand)+(rebar)&assignee=university&oq=(%22carbon+nanotubes%22+%2fand)+(rebar)+assignee:university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US8961757B2/en?q=%22carbon+nanotubes%22&assignee=university&page=4 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
We begin season three(!) as materials science makes astonishing leaps forward. Join the Overground as we shelter in place with a limited series on materials science innovation. First stop, friend of the show, Graphene! The crew discusses how graphene will be the optical interstate onramp to the rail network of our information science infrastructure... or something... and smart medical instruments that will measure your vitals while they save your life. Featured Technologies: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140056551A1/en?q=graphene+%2fand&q=photonics&assignee=university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US7745528B2/en?q=(graphene+%2fand)+(thermal)&assignee=university&oq=(graphene+%2fand)+(thermal)+assignee:university; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to M
What if the lasting legacy of COVID-19 is...not all bad? Leavening the horror of pandemic disease is the shockingly fast development of a vaccine. Right now, two COVID-19 vaccine candidates are roaring into full-on human testing, and may be ready to inoculate the world by 2021. Featured Technologies: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/operation-warp-speed-finalists-funding-initiative/; https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243; https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vectors-new-COVID-19/98/i19 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
This week the OG crew discusses all that is unknown about COVID-19, and what that means. Still up the in air: basically all the complex biology, infectious rate, latency, immunity, co-morbidity and potential vaccine efficacy. But take heart, listeners because there are a few things science is confident about. Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267810/; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01824-5; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
This week the Overground looks at solar power and rotating multi-chamber rockets. Join the crew as they contemplate how solar power is like a well-diversified retirement account, how to pronounce Elon Musk’s youngest child’s name and why is Joe so gosh darn insincere. Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-cell-technology-has-toppled-three-new-records-just-this-month Rotating detonation rocket engine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218019305838?via%3Dihub Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground takes another week off from monitoring viral pandemics to get more personal – the mysteries of the human brain Join the crew as we luxuriate in the infinite mystery of the human mind: brain implants that cure blindness, the electromagnetic basis of the ego and the scientific feasibility of telepathy. Overground platinum members get double miles this week! Featured Technologies: Brain implant https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867420304967 new process of wireless, self-propagating neural communication: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP276904 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join the Overground as we kick back and let the COIVD-19 Pandemic do its own thing a few weeks. That’s right, the crew is taking a Zoom to the poolside with a relaxing, frosty glass of...quantum physics. C’mon and join us—its Schroedinger’s cat somewhere! Possibly Australia and Austria -- at the same time! Featured Technologies: Nuclear Resonance: https://www.sciencealert.com/in-an-accidental-discovery-australian-engineers-solve-58-year-old-quantum-mystery; Quantum radar: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-are-investigating-ways-to-use-entanglement-as-a-fancy-new-kind-of-radar; https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eabb0451 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Listen in as the gang channels the four Shrinking Walls OF THE PRISON THAT IS A MAN’s MIND into a calm rational discussion of just how dang hard it is to make vaccines. Tyler lightens the mood with a glimpse into the near future, where autonomous networks of CRISPR armed robots read the next emerging pandemic viruses inside our cells and synthesize a vaccines on demand—possibly administered in our Soylent Green—to make social distancing a kitschy retro sitcom gag. Featured Technologies: Vaccine timeline (https://theconversation.com/what-needs-to-go-right-to-get-a-coronavirus-vaccine-in-12-18-months-136816); vaccine platform (https://www.unemed.com/product/vaccine-platform ); UPenn vaccine (https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-vaccine-upenn-testing-new-unproven-genetic-technology-that-could-be-faster-than-traditional-vaccine-development/) Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Summary: Join the Overground as they continue to explore university innovations for COVID 19. Fresh from the AUTM marketplace, the crew discusses next-generation artificial intelligence applications to design new drugs; new approaches to diagnosing viral diseases; and a few of the implications of the first post-CRISPR pandemic. Also, how hard is it to *get away with* murder these days? Featured Technologies: Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) (https://autm.net/about-tech-transfer/covid19/covid-19-licensing-guidelines); A.I.-based drug repurposing (https://aim.autm.net/public/project/54026/); Rolling Circle DNA replication (https://aim.autm.net/public/project/54030/); CRISPR-based viral diagnostic (https://aim.autm.net/public/project/53872/) Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Social distancing will not disrupt innovation! Join the Overground from home as they do their part to catalog how university innovation is addressing this historic pandemic. The crew discusses the multifaceted innovative response to COVID-19 coming from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, including a new approach to sterilize equipment using ultraviolet radiation, the early results of the Remdesivir clinical trial and a slew of other new inventions: face guards, intubation shields, aerosol mask filters, diagnostic kits and a COVID-19 screener app. Most importantly, learn the most comfortable (or maybe least uncomfortable) way to get a nasal swab! Featured Technologies: UV cleaning technique (https://www.unemed.com/news/unmc-nebraska-medicine-reuse-ppe); Remdesivir trial (https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25531); Intubation shield (https://www.unemed.com/product/intubation-box); Infectious Aerosol Capture Mask (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-capture-mask); Infectious aerosol filter housing (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-filter-housing) mask filters https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25440; diagnostic kits, https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25378; COVID app https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25379; 3D swabs https://www.ketv.com/article/local-3d-printing-company-creating-nasal-swabs-to-combat-testing-shortages/32074029; COVID-19 technologies for licensing (https://www.unemed.com/product-category/covid-19) Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The only podcast brave enough to say with a straight face, “the gag of the electronic sphincter,” looks at how our government is using our veterans to make human-machine hybrids to help address the infirmities of the human condition. The Overground looks VA’ approaches that address urinary incomitance, neurodegenertive swallowing disorders and anyone confined to an iron lung. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/smart-artificial-urinary-sphincter-to-treat-urinary-incontinence/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/microelectronic-throat-stimulator/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/3d-printed-artificial-lungs/; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
It’s back: arbitrary rules, unfair standards, solemn honor, a giant fake sack of money – it's another pitch off! Join the Overground as they present two easy-button startups made from VA innovation... to our special guest judge, Emily Chen Newton of KIOS's Made in the Middle. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/portable-pillow-embedded-with-sensors-to-collect-data-for-sleep-studies/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/self-leveling-walker-2/ https://www.kios.org/programs/made-middle Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join the Overground as theyexplore the amazing work of the VA in functional MRI and CT segmentation. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/advanced-segmentation-techniques-and-computed-tomography-to-assess-and-address-brain-atrophy/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-software/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The parade of VA innovation continues as the Overground tours innovations related to skincare. Learn how new technology from the VA addresses the horrific (and shockingly widespread) incidence of pressure ulcers. And another innovation find an interesting way to look at those hard-to-see places. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/skin-screening-wand-camera/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/computer-based-system-for-highly-accurate-monitoring-of-pressure-ulcers/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The next installment of the Overground’s tour of VA innovation visits new innovations in vision, beginning with diabetic retinopathy. The crew also looks at a new way to decrease the effects of eye surgery scarring. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/goggles-for-diagnosing-retinal-disease/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/histone-deacetylase-inhibitor-for-improved-glaucoma-surgery-outcomes/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/guide-system-for-the-blind/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Department of Veteran Affairs, in addition to taking excellent care of the nation’s veterans, is on the forefront of healthcare innovation. Join the Overground as they ponder new drug targets to treat obesity, new mechanisms to regulate diabetes and the inner four-yea-old living inside every scientist. Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/biomarker-for-early-detection-of-type-1-diabetes/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/composition-methods-prevention-treatment-diet-induced-obesity/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground wraps its series on shortages with dive into water. Only about 1 percent of the planet’s water is actually drinkable, and the number of thirsty people is only getting......bigger. University innovation to the rescue! With minimal heat new technology makes desalination possible using an elegant filter design. Come for the innovation, stay for the summary of the first act of Frozen, the polar sea currents and international scandal involving iceberg smuggling. It’s been a great series, gentle listeners. Which episode did you like best? Featured Technologies: Clean water crisis: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/; Mobile, solar water desalination: https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/bend-professor-awarded-million-for-drinking-water-project/article_a74283d0-23e3-5bfa-bc1b-b330199ed6c4.html; Apparatus for desalination: http://oregonstate.technologypublisher.com/tech/Apparatus_for_Water_Desalination Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground interrupts its regularly scheduled program to take a closer look at academic innovations that could provide support and solutions to the novel coronavirus sweeping the planet. Useful links: https://nebraskamed.com/covid; https://www.biospace.com/article/moderna-s-coronavirus-vaccine-ready-for-clinical-trials/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground gets kind of...gross. It's not every day that we learn the secret of turning lead to gold is...wait for it...urine. Also, phosphorus. We’re running out of phosphorus! University to the rescue! Wait. Did that say "urine?" *Note: The featured technology does not nano-bind Phosphorus, but instead holds the water to prevent phosphorus leeching. Featured Technologies: The world is really running out of phosphorus: https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/the-world-is-running-out-of-phosphorus-and-that-s-a-really-bad-thing; https://patents.google.com/patent/CN106947157A/en?oq=CN106947157A; Phosophate recovery from water: http://www.ndsuresearchfoundation.org/green-technologies Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Even as we drown in more and more information we grow more and more uncertain about what’s true. The Overground takes a turn for the morally ambiguous as they discuss how human technology has made it harder to know what to believe. University innovation to the rescue? University innovation is, um, reading the text messages, ahem, between patients and... uh... their therapists. Which, could have some beneficial impact, right? Also, Tyler talks about the ethical dilemma of information technology. Featured Technologies: 21 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century; https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170323065A1/en?oq=15%2f524%2c756; Tech is downgrading humans: https://www.wired.com/story/tristan-harris-tech-is-downgrading-humans-time-to-fight-back/; Center for Humane Tech: https://humanetech.com/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Rare earth elements are supposed to be rare, but this is getting ridiculous. Rare earth elements make highly efficient catalysts and magnets, and they’re critical resources for the electric-driven green economy. Demand is outstripping supply, and the elements are not evenly distributed across the nations of the earth. University innovation to the rescue! There are now next-generation magnets that are rare-earth element free, and in the future, these precious elements will come from a place they’re not, well, rare. Featured Technologies: Asteroid robot drill arm https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102967484A/en?oq=cn102967484; Rare earth free rare earth magnet https://patents.google.com/patent/US10332661B2/en?oq=14%2f232%2c830; More efficient rotor magnet configuration: https://www.warf.org/technologies/summary/p150363us01.cmsx Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
There is an impending sand shortage...no, really! The special sand (no, really!) that is suitable for making concrete is getting harder to find (seriously!). No matter the cause—rising sea levels, greater use, inadequate old-timey chain gangs breaking rocks–university innovation to the rescue! The gang discusses ways to replace sand in concrete and the hottest new career field of the 2040s: robotic sand mining submarine robot operator. Featured Technologies: We’re running out of sand: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2019/08/22/were-running-out-of-sand-and-cities-are-to-blame/#5a0224ff1240; Sturdy Sand Recovery Robot Submarine: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN107117276A/en?oq=CN107117276A; Recycling plastic to make cement: https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/waste-plastic-in-concrete-could-help-support-sustainable-construction-in-india/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Imagine a world where things like routine surgery, minor injuries and routine dentistry could kill you. That dreary past may be our collective future...University innovation to the rescue! New economic models to develop new antibiotics; new computer models to accelerate antibiotic discovery and how the solution to the antibiotic pipeline is...Henry Ford? Featured Technologies: Computer Assisted Antibiotic Discovery https://patents.google.com/patent/US8635031B2/en?oq=8%2c635%2c031; Policy recommendations: https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/15/antimicrobial-drugs-new-policies-incentives/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-018-00782-w Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Did you know that Helium production is associated with natural gas extraction, that it liquifies at wicked cold temperatures, easily evaporates into a gas and is nearly impossible to efficiently store – AND WE’RE RUNNING OUT!? University innovation to the rescue! Join the Overground as they discuss new ways to more efficiently extract precious, precious helium as prospectors seeking the next big helium score. Featured Technologies: Helium Extraction Frame https://patents.google.com/patent/CN109731551A/en?oq=CN109731551A; US Helium startup active in Western Canada: https://weil-group.com/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground gets foreshadow-y and you’re invited to share the vibe. The path of season two leads to discussion of shortages: critical materials, solutions for deadly disease and the human brain’s capacity to see the world as it really is – we're running out of all of them! Innovation is the one resource you can always rely on and, in the coming weeks, dive into university solutions to impending shortages Innovation Overground style! Featured Technologies: NONE! Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Summary: Join the Overground crew as they delve into the mysterious and astonishing power of your immune system. University innovation is set to produce flu vaccine on demand as the devious virus mutates. Others are using vaccines to turn the human immune system into a 21st century biochemical cruise missile to make cancer deaths a thing of the past. Featured Technologies: DNA Flu Vaccine https://patents.google.com/patent/US10398769B2/en?oq=14%2f910%2c136; Vaccine approach to cancer https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/124/21/4504/91997/Three-Steps-to-Breaking-Immune-Tolerance-A Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
It’s a new year, so let's find a new planet! Start 2020 with space elevators and self-constructing 3D printed rockets. The Overground crew is here to give you options! Featured Technologies: Space Elevator https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2170193/china-has-strongest-fibre-can-haul-160-elephants-and-space; https://phys.org/news/2018-09-japan-mini-space-elevator.html Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The New Year is around the corner, and you know what that means. Yup, college football bowl season! This week the crew look for a competitive advantage in their second-ever pitch competition, which pits next-generation augmented reality against dissolving pep strips. Featured Technologies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2RTs7GQqM ; Haptic device with indirect haptic feedback https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190265818A1/en?oq=16%2f407%2c396 ; Wearable 3D augmented reality display https://patents.google.com/patent/US10326983B2/en?oq=15%2f122%2c492; orally dissolving strips https://aim.autm.net/public/project/46097/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The crew brings Christmas future to Christmas present. Technology is arming Santa with an armada of drones, a fleet of self-driving cars, and end-of-year technology good cheer! Merry second Christmas listeners! Featured Technologies: improved computer vision for driving https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180150704A1/en?oq=15%2f824%2c435; Digital processing of video images https://patents.google.com/patent/US8599266B2/en?oq=10%2f519%2c818; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Discount neighborhood ophthalmology got you down? Losing faith in off-label, anti-fungal medication to degenerative vision disorders? Midwestern eye innovation to the rescue! Join the Overground as they discuss next generation cell-based therapies, different flavors of stem cells and retinal sod. Also: cybernetic eyes. Featured Technologies: https://www.mwdrugdevelopment.com/speakers/treat-macular-degeneration/; https://www.mwdrugdevelopment.com/speakers/treat-macular-degeneration/; https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/16/stem-cell-therapies-macular-degeneration/; Brain implant partially restores vision: https://www.bcm.edu/news/neurosurgery/second-sight-study-brings-sight-to-blind. Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
How is lifesaving surgery like a trip to Lowes? The Overground looks to new innovations in orthopedic surgery and discusses how bioabsorbable bone fixation will change lives; how in the future implants will be made from medicine and the innovation best described as: “rammer jammer yellow hammer.” Featured Technologies: https://www.cartilagen.com/ Bioresorbable orthopedic implants: https://aim.autm.net/public/project/48069/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground crew turns it over to Tyler...and things get nerdy! Learn the four layers of structural organization of the Sid Vicious of biomolecules, the Mick Jagger of cell biology, the Bono of structure-function biology: Proteins! Featured Technologies: Peptide-based methods to treat neurological injury https://content.cu.edu/amctech/show_tech.cfm?T=2050686&s=at Hormone analogs for hypoparathyroidism https://www.warf.org/technologies/summary/P130312US03.cmsx Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The gang discusses new appraoches to potentially lethal allergic reactions and overactive immune systems. Featured Technologies: Cutting and pasting is hard. Please send detailed how-to instructions and step-by-step video tutorials to Joe and Tyler at hrrunge@unmc.edu and tyler.scherr@unmc.edu. Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground is back! The gang returns from a two-week break to discuss the scientific chops—and the ultimate medical value—of ancient herbal remedies as key components in new, modern medicines. Featured Technologies: https://ctc.ku.edu/available-technology/359; https://www.famu.edu/DOR_division_of_research/Soliman%20and%20Mazzio%20-%207357950%20and%207666451.pdf Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Happy Halloween! Join the crew on a haunted tour of our favorite scary technologies and non-polyploidy foodie apples of the moment. You’ll wish you had the longevity of a gourde so you could listen again and again. Featured Technologies: https://inventions.prf.org/innovation/6902; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
On this episode the crew tackles the age-old question of nature vs nurture. Charlie’s parenting skills are tried in the dual crucible of DNA testing and psychological profiling! Featured Technologies: https://orig3n.com/; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join the crew during UNeMed’s Innovation Week as they reminisce on some of their favorite University of Nebraska technologies from this past year! Featured Technologies: https://www.unemed.com/product/pde4b-selective-inhibitors; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
On this episode, the crew discusses agricultural applications of CRISPR gene-editing technology. Come for the cool new CRISPR tech, stay for the flappy corn! Featured Technologies: https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/28790.html; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join the crew on the first-ever Startup Pitch Contest, where Joe and Tyler pitch hypothetical startups based on real university technologies. Charlie has nosey neighbors, Joe outlines the problem, Tyler faceplants on the pivot, and like another famous extemporaneous show, the points don’t matter! Featured Technologies: http://innovation.columbia.edu/technologies/CU14173_adaptable-anonymization-techniques; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Join the crew on a fever dream into a brave new future where your smartphones assiduously order meals for you. Oh, and that food is full of special goodies for your gut critters. Featured Technologies: https://brandeis.flintbox.com/#technologies/e3d8a7e3-17ab-4a30-8d30-37ef837214cf; https://inventions.prf.org/innovation/3170 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
On this episode the crew discusses the rapid advancement in blood testing capabilities—from assessing your biological age and predicting your lifespan and “healthspan” to diagnosing depressive behavior like MDD and PTSD. This episode is equal parts geeky and bloody! Featured Technology: https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/30521.html; https://www.invo.northwestern.edu/technologies/technologies/index_copy.html Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
On this episode the crew discusses the potential for link the human brain with computers, the internet and Elon Musk's PDA. Featured Technologies: https://www.neuralink.com/; https://www.flintbox.com/public/project/16674/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Innovative new technologies are putting humanity on the verge of transcending the bounds of human mortality all because the Overground wants to live forever. Featured Technology: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-ray-kurzweil-up-to-at-google-writing-your-emails/; https://www.sens.org/; https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/senescent-cell-research-moves-into-human-trials-2/; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Scientists are hacking multi-cellularity. Translation: Cells from your cheek could be turned into stem cells, and then re-grown them into some other body part, like a lung or tonsil. They can also change them into parts that are nearly you. Join the Overground as they are curiously repulsed by organoids: The synthetic step between cells, organs and a newer, healthier you. Featured Technology: Links coming soon. Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The future is now, and it’s lab grown meat: eagle steaks, extruded meat, slaughterhouse daycare, cellular agriculture. Nothing seems impossible as startup companies spring up with industrial-scale cell cultures, and make kinder, better burgers...named Floyd? Featured Technology: https://www.robertyaman.com/; https://www.memphismeats.com/; http://www.modernmeadow.com/; https://phys.org/news/2019-02-israeli-startups-firms-lab-grown-meat.html; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Every idea is built on assumptions. Multi-billion-dollar drug development projects are based on less-than-perfect understandings of underlying disease. That understanding could be wrong...at a cost of more than $1,000,000,000. Join the Overground as they pop the balloon of scientific orthodoxy with recent discoveries that challenge what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease. Featured Technology: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/; https://gaintrial.com/en/; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground turns its terrible attention to drones. To usher in age of drone management the crew composes drone limericks, drone haiku and odes to improved efficiency in traffic management, crop husbandry and the infrastructure of 21st century renewable energy. Featured Technology: https://www.flintbox.com/public/project/29935/; http://innovation.columbia.edu/technologies/CU18117_automated-disease-detection-in; http://www.research.usf.edu/dpl/content/data/PDF/18B141.pdf Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
At this very moment Norwegian Bond villains are Photoshopping your pictures to swing local school board elections. University innovation to the rescue! Join the Overground to learn how public-private partnerships are leveraging university innovation and corporate efficiency to secure our elections. Featured Technology: https://www.popsci.com/adobe-ai-photo-manipulation-tool/; https://galois.com/blog/2019/05/protecting-election-integrity-with-electionguard/ Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
Smaller than a single cell, and using bleeding edge technology, next-generation robots will remake biological systems with the precision of human engineering and the innovation of the internet... sometime in the distant future. Joe went searching for next generation nanotechnology and came back with tubes, nanotubes that is. Listen as the Overground crew riffs on advanced material science, biologically inspired sensors and the under-appreciated brilliance of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. Featured Technology: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/Portals/60/documents/T2/patent/1707/PATENT-RX-CNT_Synthesis_in_Confined_Space-July2017-WEB.pdf?ver=2017-07-26-093032-293; Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
The Overground looks into innovations around the biology of MDMA (also known as exstasy, molly, beans, thizz, vowels or Malcom). Trace the drug’s interesting history as it begins in big pharma labs, then moves to CIA mind control experiments and therapists’ offices, before jumping into the 1980’s party scene and the DEA’s banned substance list, before landing in its modern renaissance. Today, PTSD patients are re-wiring their brains with this fascinating drug. Featured Technology: https://maps.org/research/mdma; https://www.fda.gov/drugs/development-approval-process-drugs/frequently-asked-questions-patents-and-exclusivity#What_is_the_difference_between_patents_a Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/
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