- -: Creating Synthetic DNA - Drew Endy
December 10, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Drew_Endy_and_Jim_Thomas_Debate_Synthetic_Biology Stanford biologist Drew Endy discusses exponential growth in the field of bioengineering. Endy explains how scientists are now able to synthesize strands of DNA in a process similar to how computer eng...
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- -: Can Sushi Give You Mercury Poisoning? - David Ewing Duncan
April 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/25/David_Ewing_Duncan_The_Experimental_Man Science writer David Ewing Duncan comments on actor Jeremy Piven's alleged sushi-contracted illness by examining the risk mercury poisoning may pose to fish eaters. "Some people, it appears, have genetic sensiti...
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- -: Our Messy Genetic History - David Ewing Duncan
April 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/25/David_Ewing_Duncan_The_Experimental_Man Science writer David Ewing Duncan examines the complicated genetic history shared by all life on earth. "There are dormant genes in all organisms," he says. "There are genes in a chicken that, if you activated t...
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- -: Open Source Food and Genetic Engineering - Michael Pollan
May 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture "The real key to genetic engineering is control of intellectual property of the food crops that we depend on," says author Michael Pollan of companies like Monsanto. He advocates an open source GE model. ----- Farming...
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- -: Medical Benefits to Genetic Testing
June 3, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/19/A_Closer_Look_at_Personal_Genomic_Testing Linda Avey, co-founder of the genetic testing company 23andMe, discusses the personal information she learned from having her own DNA analyzed. She also lists some medical advantages of obtaining and understan...
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- -: Privacy vs Convenience in Personal Genetic Tech
June 3, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/19/A_Closer_Look_at_Personal_Genomic_Testing A panel of DNA policy and research experts connect the openness affiliated with the web 2.0 phenomenon to the growing acceptance for personal genetic testing. "We have a different sensitivity to privacy becaus...
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- -: Mankind 'God's Masterpiece or the Devil's Bad Joke?' - Eduardo Galeano
June 26, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/11/Eduardo_Galeano_Chronicles_the_History_of_Human_Adventure Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist, reads an excerpt from his book, Mirrors. He ponders the uniqueness of human beings when our DNA so closely resembles that of mice and...
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- -: Genetic Engineering Not a New Science - Pamela Ronald
August 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Pamela_Ronald_and_Raoul_Adamchak_The_Food_of_the_Future Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis, explains that although there is a stigma around the term, genetic engineering has been around for thousands of ...
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- -: Positive Selection: Is the Human Genome Evolving?
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/03/Dr_Katherine_Pollard_What_Makes_Us_Human UCSF biostatistics professor Dr. Katherine Pollard describes The Chimp Genome Project, which lists 15 genes associated with human diseases that originate in chimps. While some people have the "new human version...
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- -: Lactose Intolerance and the Evolution of Human Digestion
October 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/03/Dr_Katherine_Pollard_What_Makes_Us_Human Dr. Katherine Pollard, biostatistics professor at UCSF, illustrates how positive selection has enabled humans to process lactose and digest starch. She traces these mutations to certain ethnic and regional grou...
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