Episode 151: Natasha Loder on Covid vaccines, the demise of Watson Health, and a 'synbio' explainer
We're joined by Natasha Loder, the health policy editor at The Economist \u2014 and a London resident \u2014 to get her home-country perspective on the U.K.'s Covid vaccine development efforts. Next, we'll talk with STAT national technology correspondent Casey Ross about his yearslong investigation into the demise of Watson Health, IBM's AI health care initiative. Finally, STAT's Meghana Keshavan joins us for a primer into synthetic biology, including its role in making the mRNA-based Covid vaccines.