Futures in Biotech (Audio)

Our guest is Dr. Cynthia Kenyon; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging.

We are back into a world leading lab to discuss the genetics of aging. Can it be controlled? You bet, and the implications are enormous. When these findings translate to the clinic, it will truly be a game changer for humanity.

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Audible Pick: Prey by Michael Crichton.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Cynthia Kenyon

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

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Dr. Justin Sanchez discusses technologies that enable direct brain to computer interfacing, just think...

Dr. Justin C. Sanchez is Director of the Neuroprosthetics Research Group, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida.

I really had no idea that the technologies that Justin has developed existed other than in science fiction. The possibilities are endless, and could change everything from computing, to flying planes, to simply changing the channel... I will keep these notes short, and let Justin explain.

Find more, including videos at: The Neuroprosthetics Research Group

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Justin Sanchez, Ph.D

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

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Mark Gerstein endeavors to make sense our genome on its past and present course.

Our guest is Mark Gerstein, the Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, a professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and professor of Computer Science at Yale University Gerstein Lab.

In past shows, we've had Lee hood, the inventor of the DNA sequencer, and George Church who was among those personally involved in initiating the Human project. But getting the code and really understanding these human blueprints are entirely different problems. Our guest today, Mark Gerstein, is trying to make sense of it all, and his work amoung other things has revealed that the genome is more than just a blueprint, or list of parts, but a rich historical text about our past.

BLAST this sequence: atgttcc tgtccttccc caccaccaag acctacttcc cgcacttcga cctgagccac ggctctgccc aggttaaggg ccacggcaag aaggtggccg acgcgctgac caacgccgtg gcgcacgtgg acgacatgcc caacgcgctg tccgccctga gcgacctgca cgcgcacaag cttcgggtgg acccggtcaa cttcaagctc ctaa

Instructions: Copy and Paste the DNA sequence into the query window, and hit the blast button. What does this encode? Interesting: Try again selecting the NON-HUMAN database. What organism is the exact same gene found in? Why?

Audible pick of the week: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Unabridged, By Tim Weiner, Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. For your free audio book visit Audible.com/biotech.

TWiT T-Shirts from Lori LeBeau Walsh.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Mark Gerstein

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

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Dr. Brenda Milner describes the experiments that led to a revolution in modern neuroscience.

Our guest is Dr. Brenda Milner; Dorothy J. Killam Professor of Psychology, Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Audible pick of the week: Starswarm by Dr. Jerry Pournelle, narrated by Lloyd James. For your free audio book visit Audible.com/biotech.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Brenda Milner

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Dr. Ronald Collman, professor of medicine in microbiology, virus/cell/molecular core director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylvania.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Ronald Collman

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Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and co-founder of String Field Theory.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Michio Kaku

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A discussion with Aubrey de Grey; Chairman and Chief Science Officer, the Methuselah Foundation.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Aubrey de Grey

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Dr. George Church is the Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Founder & Principle Investigator of The Personal Genome Project.

Dr. Church describes both the underlying DNA technologies and societal implications of personal genomics.

This episode of Futures in Biotech was sponsored by Invitrogen. Save 15% on selected High Fidelity PCR enzymes with the purchase of a Zero Blunt TOPO cloning kit, and other selected TOPO kits. See TOPO ZeroBackground high fidelity. Quote RTPCWU for US or RTPCWC for Canada when ordering.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. George Church

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Also thanks to Will Hall for the great opening and closing themes!

Dr. Richard Lifton describes his scientific journey, which has changed how doctors treat hypertension: a condition that affects approximately one billion people worldwide...

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Richard Lifton

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Also thanks to Will Hall for the great opening and closing themes AND Matthew McInerney for the cool FiB Desktops.

Steve Gibson joins me in interviewing a true visionary of biotechnology: Dr. Vijay Pande. Dr. Pande is the creator and Director of Folding@Home, the world's largest distributed computing project (Stanford University) that seeks to address some of the most difficult problems in biology.

It is indeed a pretty amazing story: Sony PS3s are the largest component of the world's fastest computer, running approximately 3x faster than IBM's Blue Gene/L. And, the largest computations are being performed to simulate biology at the atomic level...

Join Leo's folding team!!! Leo's Team

Links: Folding@Home Science Stats

Host: Marc Pelletier

Co-Host: Steve Gibson

Guest: Vijay S. Pande

This episode of Futures in Biotech was sponsored by Invitrogen. Save 15% on selected High Fidelity PCR enzymes with the purchase of a Zero Blunt TOPO cloning kit, and other selected TOPO kits. See TOPO ZeroBackground high fidelity. Quote RTPCWU for US or RTPCWC for Canada when ordering.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Also, thanks to Philippe Pelletier and Will Hall for the great opening and closing themes.