Innovation Overground
A dive into some of the amazing discoveries and innovations we often hear about then never seem to touch our lives. We examine what it takes to make academic biomedical discoveries into actual things. 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.
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July 20, 2020 • 17 mins
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...
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July 13, 2020 • 21 mins
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_nanotechn...
Featured Technologies: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/introduction/introduction_to_nanotechn...
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July 6, 2020 • 19 mins
Materials science is making 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.
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June 29, 2020 • 19 mins
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/articl...
Featured Technologies: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/operation-warp-speed-finalists-funding-initiative/; https://www.nature.com/articl...
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June 22, 2020 • 17 mins
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-rampag...
Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampag...
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June 8, 2020 • 20 mins
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://ww...
Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-cell-technology-has-toppled-three-new-records-just-this-month Rotating detonation rocket engine https://ww...
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June 1, 2020 • 17 mins
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.elsev...
Featured Technologies: Brain implant https://linkinghub.elsev...
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May 25, 2020 • 18 mins
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-...
Featured Technologies: Nuclear Resonance: https://www.sciencealert.com/in-an-accidental-discovery-australian-engineers-solve-...
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May 18, 2020 • 22 mins
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 d...
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May 11, 2020 • 27 mins
Join the Overground in this second part of COVID-19 related technologies.
Featured Technologies: 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/
Featured Technologies: 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/
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May 4, 2020 • 26 mins
The Overground crew takes a closer look at some of the innovations coming out of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. There's a lot of them, so this might take a minute.
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 Capt...
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 Capt...
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April 27, 2020 • 16 mins
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/techn...
Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/techn...
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April 20, 2020 • 20 mins
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://techlinkcen...
Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/portable-pillow-embedded-with-sensors-to-collect-data-for-sleep-studies/; https://techlinkcen...
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April 13, 2020 • 17 mins
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 (@Entrep...
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 (@Entrep...
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April 6, 2020 • 16 mins
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/comp...
Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/skin-screening-wand-camera/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/comp...
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March 30, 2020 • 19 mins
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/; htt...
Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/goggles-for-diagnosing-retinal-disease/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/histone-deacetylase-inhibitor-for-improved-glaucoma-surgery-outcomes/; htt...
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March 23, 2020 • 14 mins
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://tech...
Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/biomarker-for-early-detection-of-type-1-diabetes/; https://tech...
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March 16, 2020 • 14 mins
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 internati...
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March 9, 2020 • 16 mins
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://nebraska,ed.com/covid;
Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)
Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed
Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, b...
Useful links: https://nebraska,ed.com/covid;
Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)
Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed
Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, b...
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March 2, 2020 • 13 mins
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:...
*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:...
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