Science Straight Up

Judy Muller and George Lewis

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.

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Science Straight Up

Episodes (50)

Aug 10th "The Tiny Molecules That Keep us Alive"--Dr. T.J. Ha, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University
Jul 29th "When the Cure is a Virus: Reprogramming a Killer to Fight Cancer"--Dr. Clodagh O'Shea
Jul 19th Breakthroughs in RNA Science: From Pond Scum to Life-Saving Medicine--Dr. Philip Bevilacqua, Penn State University

Science Straight Up

Aug 10, 2026
25 minutes
17 MB

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 implications for treating childhood leukemia. Telluride Science featured Dr. Ha in a talk at the Mountain Village Conference Center and the session was...

Science Straight Up

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

Judy Muller and George Lewis

00:00 -25:05