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1. Futures in Biotech 37: Just A Touch Of Green
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Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dr. Glen Ernstrom Guest: Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses touch. In Part II, Chalfie describes how he developed one of the most important tools of modern molecular biolo
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public date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:03:04 -0500 - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. Futures in Biotech 36: Avoiding Death, Not Taxes with Dr. Cynthia Kenyon
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: 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 contr
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public date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:30:23 -0800 - (29 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. Futures in Biotech 35: The Brain Machine Interface
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Host: Marc Pelletier Dr. Justin Sanchez discusses technologies that enable direct brain to computer interfacing, just think? Guest: Dr. Justin C. Sanchez, Director of the Neuroprosthetics Research Group, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Department of Neurosci
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public date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:07:04 -0400 - (23 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. Futures in Biotech 34: A Great Historical Document - The Human Genome
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Host: Marc Pelletier Mark Gerstein endeavors to make sense our genome on its past and present course. Guest: 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 Gerste
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public date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:33:13 -0400 - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. Futures in Biotech 33: Dr. Milner?s Explorations Into The Human Mind
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Host: Marc Pelletier Dr. Brenda Milner describes the experiments that led to a revolution in modern neuroscience. Guest: Dr. Brenda Milner; Dorothy J. Killam Professor of Psychology, Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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public date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:37 -0700 - (34 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. Futures in Biotech 32: Controlling HIV Evolution
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Host: Marc Pelletier Dr. Ronald Collman talks about exciting new discoveries on HIV, the virus that has taken 25 million lives. Guest: Dr. Ronald Collman, professor of medicine in microbiology, virus/cell/molecular core director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylvania. It lo
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public date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:45:19 -0700 - (23 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. Futures in Biotech 31: The Eensy-Weensy Teenie Weenie Big Bang
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In this episode, we are very fortunate to have Dr. Michio Kaku. He is the co-founder of String Field Theory, and a Professor of Theoretical Physics
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public date: Sat, 03 May 2008 08:51:46 -0700 - (25 MB Type: MPEG)
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8. Futures in Biotech 30: Aubrey de Grey on the Thousand Year Lifespan
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Aubrey de Grey; Chairman and Chief Science Officer, the Methuselah Foundation. Benjamin Franklin said: ?In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes?. But in these times of technological revolution, does this statement still hold true? And if so, for how long?
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public date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:04:08 -0700 - (30 MB Type: MPEG)
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9. Futures in Biotech 29: From Human Genome Project to Your Genome Project with Dr. George Church (Part II)
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; Founder & Principle Investigator of The Personal Genome Project This episode is a Part II, the first being FiB episode 25. In that epi
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public date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:36:59 -0800 - (34 MB Type: MPEG)
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10. Futures in Biotech 28: One of the Greatest Quests in the World of Genetics
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Richard Lifton, Chairman of the Department of Genetics; Sterling Professor of Genetics, Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at the Yale School of Medicine; and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dr. Lifton has been on a quest to understa
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public date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:00:38 -0800 - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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11. Futures in Biotech 27: Folding@Home at 1.3 Petaflops
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Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Steve Gibson Guest: Dr. Vijay S. Pande, Director of Folding@Home and Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University Steve Gibson joins me in interviewing a true visionary of biotechnology: Dr. Vijay Pande. Dr. Pande is the creator and D
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public date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:12:23 -0800 - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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12. Futures in Biotech 26: The Last Man to Walk on the Moon
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 17. Those great voices you will hear in our opening theme are Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, lunar module pilot, and Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17. They were the two last men to walk on the moon. To be accurate, Harr
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public date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:01:59 -0500 - (24 MB Type: MPEG)
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13. Futures in Biotech 25: From the Human Genome Project to Space Exploration with Dr. George Church (Part I)
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. In this episode, we are very fortunate to have one of the most inventive and visionary geneticists of our time. Even early in his ca
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public date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:06:20 -0700 - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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14. Futures in Biotech 24: The Phoenix Mars Mission with Dr. Deborah Bass
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Deborah Bass, Deputy Project Scientist, Phoenix Mars Mission Dr. Deborah Bass and her colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of Arizona have sent a Martian lander on a 400 million mile/10 month journey to the Martian arctic. The lander is e
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public date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:42:30 -0700 - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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15. Futures in Biotech 23: From Gemini to Mars with Dr. Buzz Aldrin
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Buzz Aldrin I thought I would try an experiment this week, since there are so many great science and technology stories outside the area of biotech. Yes indeed I admit - there are! Sure, we are in the midst is a biotech revolution. And yes, there will be man
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public date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:10:45 -0700 - (25 MB Type: MPEG)
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16. Futures in Biotech 22: The Marathon Mouse
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Ron Evans, Professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology, Salk Institute. In this episode, Dr. Evans talks about science in a very pure sense and explains his approach to asking the right questions. This can truly make or break a s
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public date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:40:38 -0700 - (41 MB Type: MPEG)
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17. Futures in Biotech 21: Science Versus Cancer with Dr. Evangelos Michelakis
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, MD, FACC, FAHA Our guest, Dr. E. Michelakis, published an extremely interesting paper on how a very inexpensive drug called DCA, could potentially tackle multiple forms cancer including lung, brain, and breast cancer. Otherwise known as dic
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public date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:56:56 -0700 - (31 MB Type: MPEG)
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18. Futures in Biotech 20: Dr. Eric Kandel's Insights into the Science of Mind
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Eric Kandel Dr. Kandel is a Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry and the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also a Senior Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical
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public date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:09:40 -0700 - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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19. Futures in Biotech 19: The Supra Human Organism
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Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Gordon In episode 9, which was our first episode on the field of Metagenomics, I teased Dr. Ed Delong (MIT) a little. Ed samples bacteria from the depths of the Pacific ocean about 100 miles off the north cost of Hawaii and sequences their entire genomes
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public date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:04:30 -0700 - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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20. Futures in Biotech 18: NanoBiotech
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Guests: Peter Searson, Director of the Institute for NanoBiotechnology and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Denis Wirtz, Associate Director of the Institute for NanoBiotechnology, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and
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public date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:33:40 -0700 - (34 MB Type: MPEG)
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