Futures in Biotech (Audio)
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Episodes: 75
Description
Explore the world of cloning, protein folding, genome mapping, and more with the most important researchers in the field.
Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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FiB 95: So Long and Thanks for All the FiBs - We bring back all the co-hosts, panelists, and subject matter experts for a touchy feeling - warm and fuzzy feel good farewell.
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Jul 07, 2012 |
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FiB 94: Getting DNA Right-s - We navigate the waters of Biotechnology. Gene patents, how do you get them and why are they there? And once you have them, how are you going to finance your company and move forward?
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Jun 08, 2012 |
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FiB 93: Snyder's Omics - The technologies that our guest has developed are playing an important role in changing the world, not like the car, the microwave and the cell phone, but as in Drs. Flox, McCoy, and Crusher.
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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FiB 92: Foldit - Crowd Sourcing God's Work - Dr. David Baker explains how the game Foldit uses crowdsourcing to intelligently design artificial proteins never seen before in nature.
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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FiB 91: 6 PhDs Piled High and Deep - In this episode of Futures in Biotech, we talk about the Frontiers of Biotechnology - where the line between science and sci-fi are beginning to blur.
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Dec 16, 2011 |
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FiB 90: In-Silico Models of Organ Morphogenesis - In this episode of Futures in Biotech, Dr. Celeste Nelson, from Princeton University, explores the fundamental mechanisms of organ morphogenesis.
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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FiB 89: Towards Curing Malaria With Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler - Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler describes her approaches to drug discovery in an effort to tackle Malaria.
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Nov 19, 2011 |
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FiB 88: Cogito, Ergo Sum... Multitasking? - How understanding our mind will shape our futures with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.
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Nov 04, 2011 |
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FiB 87: Anti-Matter Message in a Magnetic Bottle - We talk with Jeffrey Hangst about the successful trapping of anti-hydrogen to hopefully answer some of our most important questions about the universe.
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Sep 30, 2011 |
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FiB 86: Biomasses for the Masses - Changing an Amish farm in Ohio into an energy source solution for modern times.
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Sep 09, 2011 |
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FiB 85: Modeling Life With the World's Most Powerful Computer System - Dr. Vijay Pande, Stanford's Director of Folding@Home, details how the world's most powerful system models Alzheimer's and other human diseases.
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Aug 19, 2011 |
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FiB 84: Biotech - Hot in Cleveland - Baiju Shah, President & CEO of BioEnterprise, explains how to transform a regional economy into a thriving biotechnological innovation center.
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Jul 15, 2011 |
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FiB 83: Bioinformatics: Essential Gene Names Skewed in a Network of Blame - Dr. Mark Gerstein from Yale University explains the essence of life through network theory.
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Jul 08, 2011 |
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FiB 82: Bionic Brain Symbionts: The Next Phage of Human Slurry - We discuss everything from symbiotic devices to human proteome phage to the race between transcription and translation, genetics gone wild.
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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FiB 81: Worm Research: The Buck Starts Here - Dr. Gordon Lithgow bridges the science of protein folding and life extension.
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Jun 17, 2011 |
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FiB 80: Light Up the Brain - Using optogenetics to study learning and cognition.
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May 20, 2011 |
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FiB 79: Oceans 20 - The Test Run, the technology that will transition us into the next era of medicine.
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May 13, 2011 |
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FiB 78: TWiV Infects FiB - It's a science mashup. FiB and TWiV together for one big show.
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Mar 18, 2011 |
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FiB 77: How The Environment and A Single Protein Influence Evolution - How the environment and a single protein influence evolution.
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Mar 12, 2011 |
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FiB 76: It's Time To Proteo Me - How mass spectrometry has become one of the most important technologies in our move toward personalized medicine.
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Feb 25, 2011 |
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FiB 75: It's Time To Start the Human Proteome - The move to the Human Proteome is the next big transition in modern medicine.
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Feb 19, 2011 |
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FiB 74: Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons with Dr. Judith Campisi - Seeking to better understand how cellular senescence contributes to the pathophysiology of aging.
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Jan 14, 2011 |
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FiB 73: The New Science of Aging - We will discuss the biotech of life extension with the scientist that discovered the Sirtuan family of genes.
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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FiB 72: A Four Billion Year Old Social Network - How controlling bacterial behavior may lead to a new class of urgently needed antibiotics.
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Dec 10, 2010 |
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FiB 71: Genomics, Proteomics, Cellular Immunity, and Anti-Matter - The '1000 Genome Project', 'Billion Dollar Human Proteome', viral killing proteins, and capturing anti-matter.
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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FiB 70: SBIR Funding: The Business of Science - How to fund the development of your own technology through SBIR funding.
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Nov 06, 2010 |
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FiB 69: The Power of Yeast Genetics - Looking at one of the most powerful genetic model systems: Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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Oct 15, 2010 |
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FiB 68: Rats Will Inherit the Earth - How studying mammalian biological history can help us better understand ourselves.
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Oct 01, 2010 |
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FiB 67: Triceratopping Egg Mountain - Dinosaur hunting with the man who inspired Jurassic Park.
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Sep 18, 2010 |
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FiB 66: The Homebrew Genomics Club - A first hand account on the genesis of the Human Genome Project.
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Sep 11, 2010 |
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FiB 65: Tackling Genetic Disease - Progress in molecular biology and the latest strategies for tackling genetic disease.
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Aug 28, 2010 |
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FiB 64: The Future Is Viral - Five scientists discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnology in a post-genomics era.
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Jul 24, 2010 |
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FiB 63: How to Use a Mouse - Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Capecchi teaches us how to use a mouse to dissect the human genome and understand disease.
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Jul 03, 2010 |
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FiB 62: X-Ray Crystallography - Dr. Alexander McPherson explains X-ray crystallography, a technique that will produce a true atomic anatomy of the human body.
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Jun 26, 2010 |
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FiB 61: One Heart Beat Away - Tackling problems of the heart with biotechnology.
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Jun 15, 2010 |
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FiB 60: Do You Come to This Cave Often? - Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more.
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May 22, 2010 |
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FiB 59: No Room for Failure - A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control.
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May 11, 2010 |
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FiB 58: Vertical Farms and Much, Much More With Dick Despommier - Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming.
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Apr 17, 2010 |
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FiB 57: Mechanisms of Non-Mendelian Inheritance in Evolution - How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.
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Apr 02, 2010 |
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FiB 56: New Antiviral Strategies with Karla Kirkegaard - A look into RNA viruses and more.
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Mar 19, 2010 |
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FiB 55: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 2 - Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar talks about how to improve electronic systems using biologically inspired design.
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Feb 26, 2010 |
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FiB 54: Personal Genome Project - Leo's Genome? - The Personal Genome Project: making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful.
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Feb 24, 2010 |
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FiB 53: Project Genome 10K - Mapping Life's Greatest Journey - Project Genome 10k, and how sequencing ten thousand vertebrate genomes will tell us about our past, present, and future.
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Jan 26, 2010 |
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FiB 52: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 1 - Bio-inspired and biomedical electronics, circuit modeling of biology, and more.
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Dec 25, 2009 |
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FiB 51: MRI Engineering Made Easy - How to build an MRI, and how it works.
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Dec 19, 2009 |
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FiB 50: More Biotech Stories - Marc and some the FiB regulars cover important stories in the biotechnology realm.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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FiB 49: Brain-Machine Interfaces - Dr. Justin Sanchez walks us through the technology of brain machine interfaces.
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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FiB 48: Sequencing an Ocean's Genome - Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean.
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Nov 03, 2009 |
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FiB 47: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century - Dr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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FiB 46: Towards Computers That Think - An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.
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Sep 08, 2009 |