Futures in Biotech (Video)

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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.

Episode Date
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.
Jul 07, 2012
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?
Jun 08, 2012
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.
Apr 06, 2012
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.
Mar 09, 2012
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.
Dec 16, 2011
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.
Dec 02, 2011
FiB 89: Towards Curing Malaria With Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler - Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler describes her approaches to drug discovery in an effort to tackle Malaria.
Nov 19, 2011
FiB 88: Cogito, Ergo Sum... Multitasking? - How understanding our mind will shape our futures with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.
Nov 04, 2011
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.
Sep 30, 2011
FiB 86: Biomasses for the Masses - Changing an Amish farm in Ohio into an energy source solution for modern times.
Sep 09, 2011
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.
Aug 19, 2011
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.
Jul 15, 2011
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.
Jul 08, 2011
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.
Jun 24, 2011
FiB 81: Worm Research: The Buck Starts Here - Dr. Gordon Lithgow bridges the science of protein folding and life extension.
Jun 17, 2011
FiB 80: Light Up the Brain - Using optogenetics to study learning and cognition.
May 20, 2011
FiB 79: Oceans 20 - The Test Run, the technology that will transition us into the next era of medicine.
May 13, 2011
FiB 78: TWiV Infects FiB - It's a science mashup. FiB and TWiV together for one big show.
Mar 18, 2011
FiB 77: How The Environment and A Single Protein Influence Evolution - How the environment and a single protein influence evolution.
Mar 12, 2011
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.
Feb 25, 2011
FiB 75: It's Time To Start the Human Proteome - The move to the Human Proteome is the next big transition in modern medicine.
Feb 19, 2011
FiB 74: Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons with Dr. Judith Campisi - Seeking to better understand how cellular senescence contributes to the pathophysiology of aging.
Jan 14, 2011
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.
Dec 17, 2010
FiB 72: A Four Billion Year Old Social Network - How controlling bacterial behavior may lead to a new class of urgently needed antibiotics.
Dec 10, 2010
FiB 71: Genomics, Proteomics, Cellular Immunity, and Anti-Matter - The '1000 Genome Project', 'Billion Dollar Human Proteome', viral killing proteins, and capturing anti-matter.
Nov 19, 2010