<![CDATA[Darwin's Solution: The Companion Podcast]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution This is a series of podcasts on my recent book, "Darwin's Solution: The Impact of Evolutionary Thinking on Medicine and Biotechnology," published by World Scientific.

It is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and also directly from the publisher's website.

]]> RSS.com 2026.701.120359 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:23:39 GMT en f15b2e43-2da4-5738-9f73-3483b4d10e16 https://media.rss.com/darwin-s-solution/podcast_cover_20260629_050636_0ba50a02950482c8f7f8702ac1f57226.png Darwin's Solution: The Companion Podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution no Animesh Ray Animesh Ray Animesh Ray false episodic podcast Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA true <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2980805 cf2d557f-33dd-4464-9b8a-3194f6f0a6cb 700 full 1 1 15 15 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:32:27 GMT false false <![CDATA[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..

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2975752 1e2bf2fe-29d2-4c77-a2f4-b1a2ecc08bb2 700 full 1 1 14 14 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:21:00 GMT false false <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2974995 c50febbf-ac7a-46a7-a038-b9e0a008df51 1309 full 1 1 13 13 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Ecuador, Ecuador <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2968489 ead599b5-1c72-4488-b12e-45adbbb41b0f 658 full 1 1 12 12 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false false Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA <![CDATA[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?

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2967983 1c7ac140-391a-41d8-a576-cd0190c458bd 353 full 1 1 11 11 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA England, United Kingdom <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2965463 0add8205-d177-4ee0-a639-9ff64bf10ba5 722 full 1 1 10 10 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false false Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Los Angeles County, California, USA <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2965334 f3326182-f229-4bfb-bcb1-581bdf4acb5e 1199 full 1 1 9 9 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75000, France <![CDATA[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?

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2962397 6663f2ae-67bd-4dd3-9b95-c62b3f31de38 804 full 1 1 8 8 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false false Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2958546 12508047-c5a7-4f38-8a65-af31431aa30f 1165 full 1 1 7 7 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Corfu, Greece <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2960882 b52c33fd-5730-4f30-90f2-404dfd951735 623 full 1 1 6 6 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false false Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA <![CDATA[The Evolving Cancer]]> Cancer growing within a human body displays all the characteristics of evolution--the messy, blind, near random paths that evolution takes not just to fashion species but also to make tumors grow, feed, metastasize, and adapt to anti-cancer drugs.

The same evolutionary mechanisms explain both the emergence of new species and the origins of cancer.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2959055 30a4678c-32a1-4d8f-ba18-bae08bfa5841 1164 full 1 1 5 5 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA <![CDATA[The Paradox of Cancer]]> This episode explores how the same processes that gave rise to organisms with multiple cell types, such as mice and men, also give rise to cancer. We try to make sense of this paradox in the light of evolution.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2956356 9aa402fd-6d4b-4382-a4a8-9f3de1e5f235 817 full 1 1 4 4 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT false false <![CDATA[Darwin's Tea Party]]> The third episode of podcasts on my book "Darwin's Solution: The Impact of Evolutionary Thinking on Medicine and Biotechnology" goes through a time-warp into an alternate universe, where Charles Darwin invites Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electromagnetic equations, and Louis Pasteur, the father of microbiology, for high tea in Darwin's garden.

(The podcast is generated in NotebookML, but the scene described is in Part II, Chapter 1 of my book)

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2952742 e0ee42b7-1c7b-4a50-b0c7-8c1177e5d485 1104 full 1 1 3 3 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:30:00 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA Kent, United Kingdom <![CDATA[The Day the World Changed for Me]]> Here I trace my journey from a book I received as a six-year-old to my current thoughts and ideas

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2952137 2999e172-221c-4e75-81a7-81aaaf4ef134 529 full 1 1 2 2 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:33:11 GMT false false <![CDATA[A straight Line from Galapagos Finches to Modern Medicine]]> This podcast explores the overall content of my latest book, "Darwin's Solution: The Impact of Evolutionary Thinking on Medicine and Biotechnology".

It was generated by NotebookML

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/darwin-s-solution/2952080 07f16ef9-f4c2-467c-b60a-cfab7e6fca19 1371 full 1 1 1 1 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:09:03 GMT false true Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, USA