Category Archives: STEM

Dr. Ronald Mallet, Credit: Dr. Ronald Mallett

Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Mission to Make Time Travel A Reality

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut. Ira Pastor comments: Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, by an object or a person, […]

Tardigrade, Credit University of Wyoming

Discover Biology At The Extreme Limits of Life

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Thomas Boothby, Assistant Professor from the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming. Ira Pastor comments: A few episodes ago, we began to segue into a fascinating area of biology that has broad potential applications across various domains of human health and enhancement, […]

Dr. Renard Siew

Future Proof Our Planet: Dr. Renard Siew

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor with the Centre for Governance and Political Studies in Kuala Lumpur. Today, we are going to be talking about Sustainability and Climate Change; two topics that have really come to the public forefront in recent months, and which […]

Dr. Lorna Harries's Team, Credit: University of Exeter

RNA – Essential For All Human Life: Therapies

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at University of Exeter Medical School. Ira Pastor comments: Today as we continue our discussions on ideaXme pertaining to the biological hierarchy of life, we are going to journey into what I refer to as the “metabolic […]

David Fajgenbaum for Wharton Magazine, Credit David Fajgenbaum

Could Millions Benefit from Dr. Fajgenbaum’s Self Cure?

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, Founding Director of the Castleman Disease Center, and Co-Founder & Executive Director of […]

Sam Illingworth, Credit: Sam Illingworth

A Sonnet to Science: Dr. Sam Illingworth

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Dr Sam Illingworth, PhD Atmospheric Physics, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Illingworth is a “poet scientist” who believes that poetry is a powerful tool to communicate and explore science. He is passionate about encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas from one […]

Dr. Kinoshita, Credit Osaka University

Blood for Everyone!

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Manabu Kinoshita, Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, at the National Defense Medical College in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. Blood Transfusions Today the ideaXme show is going to travel around the world to Japan, to discuss the topic of artificial blood […]

Dr. Wise Young, Credit: Rutgers University

A Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injury Treatment with Dr. Wise Young

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Wise Young M.D., Ph.D., the Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience, Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and the Founding Director of the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. Spinal Cord Injury A spinal cord injury (SCI) is […]

Dr. Josh Mitteldorf, credits: Dr. Josh Mitteldorf

The DataBETA project, and Aging Interventions: Dr. Josh Mitteldorf

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews evolutionary biologist, researcher and author Dr. Josh Mitteldorf. Ira Pastor comments: On the last couple of shows we’ve been spending a lot of time on the different hierarchical levels of the aging processes, talking about the genome, the microbiome, tissue engineering, systems biology, and […]

Dr. William Pruett with mentor Robert Hester, credit University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Virtual Physiological Humans For Virtual Clinical Studies

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. William Pruett, from the Physiology and Biophysics Department of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Ira Pastor comments: The year is now 2019, and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. As part of that $7 trillion, […]