The Disease Time Machine – Ira Pastor – CEO, Bioquark, Inc. – How the Study of Organisms May Show Us the Way to Turn Back Time for Cell Regeneration
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Bioquark CEO provides an informative analysis of the study of biologic solutions to human health in the 21st century. Bioquark, Inc. is a life sciences company that develops proprietary, combinatorial biologic products for health issues, including the repair and regeneration of organs and tissues, as well as for reversion of degenerative diseases. Pastor's company looks to organisms in the natural world for clues to human diseases and conditions. Pastor's team is particularly interested in the complex regeneration process of the salamander, and select worms that can amazingly revert cancerous cells back to normal tissue.
Bioquark's mission is to find the connection point that will bring these complex health processes in line with the study of human health, for advances that could help fight disease or perhaps eradicate it. The life sciences company seeks to take bold steps forward in the areas of neurology (for central nervous system damage, Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord issues, etc.), cancer, and metabolic disorders (diabetes, and others).
Pastor will provide an overview of their study of localized cells and why it's important to figure out the signaling and regenerative processes these cells use to grow new cells that are regionally specific. And he'll explain how Bioquark's work is furthering the historical study of the human egg, as the egg contains all the signals necessary to start its journey to become a human embryo. Ultimately, Pastor hopes to find ways to bridge the gap between what we know about organisms and their ability to regenerate tissue, and wound healing in humans. Finding the answers that lie within that gap may hold the key to startling advances in human health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | My guest is Ira Paster. He's the CEO and co-founder at bioquirk.com. So Ira, how are you doing? |
| 0:38.0 | Wonderful, thanks for having me today. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 0:41.0 | So tell me a little bit about biocorkirk what's the premise of the company. |
| 0:44.1 | The premise is basically going back to nature to sort of take a second look at |
| 0:52.0 | sort of |
| 0:53.0 | the wonderful organisms that inhabit this planet with us that are |
| 0:58.1 | much further advanced than we are when it comes to health |
| 1:02.4 | and disease prevention and whether that be things like complex |
| 1:07.5 | regeneration of the salamanders or the ability of certain you know worms to turn back cancer into normal tissue or even |
| 1:16.1 | some of the species that you know like to live forever or age very slowly we |
| 1:22.0 | think there's a lot to still be learned out there in the natural world |
| 1:24.8 | and sort of create biologic solutions to a lot of these problems that's sort of the last |
| 1:30.8 | hundred years of the pharmaceutical industry and sort, you know, the pharmaceutical industry and sort of, you know, where I grew up, |
| 1:35.0 | really haven't been able to answer for us yet. |
| 1:38.0 | So it's really about getting a little more creative |
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