ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Galaxy Balance explores the frontier where biology, technology and consciousness meet. Each episode brings together pioneers shaping our collective future, from genome engineers and AI builders to longevity researchers, space explorers, and mindfulness practitioners. Hosted by Cory Smith, the conversations dive deep into how these seemingly distant fields form an interconnected ecosystem, one that balance innovation with introspection, science with spirit, and ambition with awareness. At its core, Galaxy Balance is about integration; the idea that our greatest leaps forward happen when disciplines collide. The same algorithms that decode galaxies can help us understand genomes; the same principles that govern consciousness can illuminate AI. Through long-form, unscripted dialogue, the show invites listeners to zoom out from the silos of specialization and see the larger pattern: a living system of intelligence evolving across scales – molecular, planetary, and cosmic.
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Average audio length:
63 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
29 episodes
since Dec. 10, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What happens when scientists rewrite the genetic code that nearly all life on Earth shares?
Dr. Akos Nyerges, a genome engineer and independent research group leader at Harvard Medical School, joins Galaxy Balance to explore the emerging world of synthetic genomes. His lab is engineering bacteria w…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What happens when scientists rewrite the genetic code that nearly all life on Earth shares?
Dr. Akos Nyerges, a genome engineer and independent research group leader at Harvard Medical School, joins Galaxy Balance to explore the emerging world of synthetic genomes. His lab is engineering bacteria w…
If the universe contains billions of potentially habitable worlds, where is everybody?
Dr. Terry Adair, author of Where Are the Little Green Men? The Adair Hypothesis, joins Galaxy Balance to examine the Fermi paradox through the lens of energy. His hypothesis proposes that an advanced technologic…
What if we could design a medicine for a single person?
Casey McPherson was a musician and songwriter when his daughter Rose was diagnosed with an ultra-rare neurogenetic disease. There was no approved treatment and no clear path forward. Rather than accepting that answer, Casey began learning gene…
Could life be using quantum physics to sense the world, regulate cellular processes, and respond to magnetic fields?
Clarice Aiello is a quantum engineer, Chair of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer at the Quantum Biology Institute, and the founder of the former Quantum Biology Tech Lab at UCLA…
00:00 - Introduction to Lily and GLife’s vision for data-driven dermatology
01:20 - Lily’s scientific background
02:43 - Breakthroughs from single-cell atlases
03:50 - The motivation behind founding GLife
04:50 - The importance of treating skin as a foundational organ
05:48 - Discovery of key mo…
What does it take to bring new chemistry to life?
In this episode of Galaxy Balance, Cory Smith speaks with Aditya Kunjapur, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, about genetic code expansion, non-standard amino acids, engineered microbes, and t…
Erik Aznauryan, CEO and co-founder of HarborSite, joins Galaxy Balance to explore the next frontier of genome engineering: moving beyond small edits and toward precise, large-scale DNA insertion. Erik traces his path from Armenia and medical school to Europe, the Church Lab, and eventually founding…
Max Rye and Evan Appleton of Intertwined Bio join Galaxy Balance to explore one of the boldest ideas in modern biology: borrowing nature’s most extreme traits and translating them into human health.
From horses that resist liver cirrhosis to naked mole rats, bowhead whales, radiation resistant orga…
In this episode of Galaxy Balance, I sit down with Charles Fracchia to explore the emerging infrastructure layer of synthetic biology. We discuss the future of secure and scalable bioengineering, the role of community laboratories in accelerating innovation, and how biology is evolving into a progr…
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