Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
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http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves. See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler, "the Bacteria Whisperer" on the TED Blog: http://... Read more
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- -: Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
April 8, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves. See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler,...
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- -: Using Engineering Principles To Study and Manipulate Biologi
April 13, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk April 10, 2009 ABSTRACT Using Engineering Principles To Study and Manipulate Biological Systems at the Cellular Level, presented by Carlos Gómez-Uribe Biological cells sense information from their environment and respond to it in consistent ways, while robustly regulating many...
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- -: Craig Venter - Creating Artificial Life
April 11, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/25/Joining_3_5_Billion_Years_of_Microbial_Invention Celebrity geneticist Craig Venter discusses his laboratory's processes for creating artificial microbes. ----- Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention featuring biologist J. Craig Venter. Bi...
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- -: In the Hot Zone with Virus X - Richard Preston
July 12, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/12/Richard_Preston_Panic_in_Level_4 "The Hot Zone" author Richard Preston describes his close call with a mysterious "Virus X," in a visit to a U.S. Army level-4 biocontainment research lab. ----- Richard Preston talks about Panic in Level 4: Canibals,...
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- -: WMD Attack by 2013? - Jim Talent
January 22, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/08/World_at_Risk_with_Jim_Talent_and_Graham_Allison Former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) summarizes the government's current terrorist threat assessment for the United States. Talent states that "within five years it is probable that there will be a successf...
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- -: Darwinian Evolution on Display in Chimp Group Raids
April 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/24/Ask_a_Scientist_Sex_and_War Professor Malcolm Potts, coauthor of Sex and War, shows video of an aggressive group of male chimpanzees attacking a lone chimp from a neighboring troop. Potts says this is what "Darwinian evolution is all about." ----- W...
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- -: Sexual Aggression and Risk Taking: Are We That Different from Chimps?
April 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/24/Ask_a_Scientist_Sex_and_War Professor Malcolm Potts, coauthor of Sex and War, compares the biological similarities exhibited in the risk taking behavior of male chimpanzees and humans. ----- Why is it that humans, nearly unique in this regard, have ...
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- -: Is Mass Extinction of Life on Earth Inevitable?
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Tim_Flannery_Here_on_Earth Is it a natural characteristic of life on Earth to be self-destructive? Tim Flannery, author of Here on Earth, argues against Peter Ward's "Medea Hypothesis," which proposes that multicultural life is inherently suicidal. -...
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- -: Flannery on Evolution: Competition Leads to Cooperation
June 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/25/Tim_Flannery_Here_on_Earth Paleontologist Tim Flannery states that, although evolution functions as a competitive mechanism, the mutually dependent relationships that it produces should not be taken for granted. "The mechanism is pretty nasty and brut...
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- -: Testosterone and Crime: What Can Genes Tell Us About Behavior?
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/13/Steve_Jones_Nature_Nurture_or_Neither Evolutionary biologist Steve Jones notes that genes responsible for circulating testosterone in men are also to blame for most violent and criminal behavior. He argues, however, that the environment in which a per...
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