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Listen to This: 'Hope Lies in Dreams,' a New Podcast from Nature Biotechnology

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Scientific American

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4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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This is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered more than a century ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3

and I'm from the journal Nature Biotechnology. We have just launched a new podcast, a standalone series that the science talk editors thought might interest you.

0:44.0

It's a ten-part show that looks at the history of the drug modality Antisense,

0:48.3

and it starts with an anti-sense pioneer who overcame poverty and a rough childhood just to make something of himself.

0:54.6

Eventually, his company created the first drug to treat the leading genetic killer of babies,

0:59.5

spinal muscular atrophy.

1:01.5

We built a trailer for the show, and I'd like to play that for you now.

1:05.2

The podcast is called Hope Lies in Dreams, and the first episode launched September 8th.

1:13.7

Here you go. Stan Crook told me something once that I've never forgotten. This was back in 2015 when I was interviewing him in a

1:18.9

Hilton hotel in San Francisco near Union Square. He was in San Francisco to attend a biotech

1:23.7

conference as CEO of a company he founded in 1989.

1:33.8

Stan grew up destitute in downtown Indianapolis in the 40s and 50s, an ugly place, as he called it. And as we talked, I asked him how he managed to overcome that neighborhood and his

1:38.4

hard upbringing and get himself to college and then beyond. So mostly desperation and anger and just the whole idea of having no hope,

1:50.5

no aspirations. I mean, poverty is not the loss of money. Of course, it's sad. It's the loss of

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