Science Straight Up

About Science Straight Up

In conjunction with Telluride Science, "Science Straight Up" delves into how science impacts our everyday lives. Your hosts, veteran broadcast journalists Judy Muller and George Lewis talk to leading scientists and engineers from around the world.

Publisher

Judy Muller and George Lewis

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2020

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

51 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   "The Tiny Molecules That Keep us Alive"--Dr. T.J. Ha, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University

   There are millions of tiny machines at work in our bodies, keeping our genes repaired when they break. These machines--protein molecules--can be watched and monitored by science, thanks to imaging technology developed by Dr. T.J. Ha, who immigrated to the United States from South Korea in the 1990's. His research aims at understanding how exactly these proteins do their work and what happens when they break down, leading to diseases like cancer. This could have enormous implicatio...

2. 

   29 Jul 2026

   "When the Cure is a Virus: Reprogramming a Killer to Fight Cancer"--Dr. Clodagh O'Shea

   "It takes a monster to kill a monster." So says Dr. Clodagh O'Shea of California's Salk Institute. In her talk, sponsored by Telluride Science, she details the work her lab does to reprogram viruses to attack cancer cells while leaving normal cells untouched. Now in early human trials, this sort of treatment could revolutionize the way medicine deals with cancer. O’Shea is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the Salk Institute, where she holds the Wicklow Chair. She is al...

3. 

   19 Jul 2026

   Breakthroughs in RNA Science: From Pond Scum to Life-Saving Medicine--Dr. Philip Bevilacqua, Penn State University

   Dr. Philip Bevilacqua from Penn State University traces RNA’s origins in outer space to the primordial soup of early Earth to its starring role in today’s medical breakthroughs, offering a plain-language look at how this once-overlooked molecule is now powering CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing, an improved flu vaccine and the fight against diseases like Ebola. He spoke at the Telluride Mountain Village Conference Center and veteran broadcas...

Who has been a guest on Science Straight Up

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Josh Schaidle
• Dr Steve Corcelli
• Dr Natalia Shustova
• Dr Michael McGuirk

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

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Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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