The forces shaping markets and the economy are often hiding behind a blur of numbers.

So that's why we created The Big Take from Bloomberg Podcasts, to give you the context you need to make sense of it all.

Every day in just 15 minutes, we dive into one global business story that matters.

You'll hear from Bloomberg journalists like Matt Levine.

A lot of this meme stock stuff is, I think, embarrassing to the SEC.

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Later in this podcast, we'll be sticking a needle in a little green frog.

We'll also report on people conducting experiments on themselves.

We are not advocating you try any of this at home.

What if the tools of modern science were so accessible that you could cure yourself of your own disease?

Welcome to Prognosis, a podcast about health, medical technology, and the mind-blowing innovation now underway in some of the least expected places.

I'm your host, Michelle Fay Cortez.

Today we're taking a peek into the world of biohacking, where self-taught scientists are experimenting with glow-in-the-dark beer,

insulin-producing yeast, and even do-it-yourself cures for cancer.

There's a history of scientific innovations shrinking from big, expensive, and inaccessible,

to personalized and widely used. Just look at computers. In the 1970s, they took up entire rooms,

and pretty much only professionals had access to them.

Now, millions of people carry pocket-sized computers,

also known as smartphones, everywhere.

A growing contingent of self-taught scientists,

called biohackers, believe that healthcare care may be following a very similar path.

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