Small companies you might not have heard of doing things you might not quite understand or at least thats true with me. I want to focus in on one area in particular called natera out of san carlos. The company has created a series of tests that can detect the recurrence of cancer. Sometimes years faster than an oncologist will catch it on a ct scan and it is done with a vial of blood. Steve chapman is the ceo of natera. Good morning. While your Company Makes most of its money from something called panorama, this is a noninvasive prenatal test, i want to start with this issue of cancer. You are detecting cancer, the return of cancer to be specific, the dna of a tumor which youre finding essentially in a drop of blood. Have i got that description pretty close . Thats right, scott. Thanks for having me. We developed a new test we call signatera. Were sequencing the entire tumor and making a personalized test for every single patient to track their tumor in the blood. The test has shown so
And your comments a moment ago to andrew, just sort of crystallize, not just what a job shes done, but how companies are placing their bets on looking through cycles, even though were a week away from an election and in the middle of a pandemic. You have somebody the quality of lease why isa su, best ceo i country, nonpromotional, re competitive thought this was maxed out. Youre in the personal computer and data center, it is not good enough she saw what happened to intel i dont say that with any prejudice. Just that she left intel behind. She is in the data center, who is she who are her clients . Azure, google, and, of course, amazon but it is time she feels it is time to branch out into auto, time to branch out into defense into telco when you look at xilinx, what youre seeing is a mosaic where there is some overlap in data center, but the rest is an attempt to say, you know what, we need a bigger total Addressable Market we have to outgrow our markets right now. And i think it is a
Conservation. How to make see the screen. How can we protect our tests. We can make a difference to. The ideas the environmental series of little 3000. 00 on t. W. Gone. Were being told to keep things clean. d d d through direct contact or through the air traces of corona virus can be transferred to the objects we touch and in turn transfer to us. To keep that from happening weve come up with innovative ways to avoid having to touch things. And to keep surfaces clean. Living our lives means its impossible to avoid all types of contact so we need to understand the real. Risks in our environments. How long does the virus remain viable on surfaces and is it ever there in dangerous amounts do surfaces pose the threat we once thought they did. And this is the covert 900 special hello and welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin good to have you with us money shopping cards door handles just about everything we touch is getting a 2nd look these days or even a clever work around lik
The 6th nation in the world to pass 1000000 cases spain has been tightening restrictions to help stem a surge in new infections. I dont Memorial Service in paris french president in my home across has paid tribute to some no party the history teacher beheaded by an islamist last friday that he was killed after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammad to his students in a debate on freedom of expression across called the teacher a quiet hero slain by cowards. Is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website d. W. Dot com. Forward. Today Germanys Health minister the governments guardians of Public Health announced that he has tested positive for the corona virus another reminder of just how contagious this virus is here in europe the number of new infections is skyrocketing again spain has more than a 1000000 cases ireland is imposing a 2nd lockdown parts of the u. K. And germany are shutting down to winter is coming the corona chill has already arri
The quality of animal products is good if the industry is all about reducing costs the cost of meat thats our topic today on made in germany the business magazine. Its good to have you with us consumers have long viewed meat as a mere commodity without connecting it to the lives of the animals it comes from certainly applies to industrial poor production which favors scale over Animal Welfare and that means that pig farms to cram the animals into tight enclosures with no room to move around naturally researchers are getting a better understanding of pigs just how smart sensitive even sociable they are these discoveries in turn are helping drive Consumer Preferences and driving demand for better or humane production methods lets take a look at a farm that tries to raise happy picks. These pigs need an unusually large amount of straw thats because of the enlightened approach taken by farmer Gabriella Miller of x. Mine. Instead of viewing her animals purely as future food she treats them