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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S3-E19.4 - NAIL-NIT: "Morphic Resonance" and FDA Test Criteria
Description: This conversation starts with discussing how challenging it was to develop initial FDA test criteria for evaluating NASH drugs. Many years later, he notes, we have learned how flawed these criteria were, several in ways we cannot fix, but we need to do better. He relates this to what the British author Rupert Sheldrake describes as "morphic resonance" or mysterious telepathy type interconnections between organisms and collective memories within species. Once thing leading hepatologists have learned is that you can look at a liver or liver data and get a clear since you are looking at NASH, but it...