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Mammalian Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
In this talk, leading genetist Rudolf Jaenisch delivers a clear overview of the challenges facing the cloning, dispelling many of the misconceptions about cloning that are pervasive in popular media.
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Nanotechnology
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
What is nanotechnology? Will it change the world, as some have promised? What's all this about molecular machines in our blood?
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James Watson on How He Discovered DNA
by James Watson
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA.
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The Human Genome Project
by Eric S. Lander
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist and a mathematician, with research interests in human genetics, mouse genetics, population genetics and computational and mathematical methods in biology.
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Aubrey de Grey Says We Can Avoid Aging
by Aubrey de Grey
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.
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Human Cloning and Human Rights
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
Ignore the noisy debate around cloning, Rudolf Jaenisch quietly insists, and instead look closely at the biology involved.
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Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
by Mark Walport
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Designer Babies: Human genetic engineering is a step too far.
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Our Bodies, Our Technologies
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the species that invented them?
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Nanotubes
by Sumio Iijima
Available on: Online Video
Carbon nanotubes, some 1000 times smaller than conventional carbon fibers, have tensile strengths 100x that of steel and conduct electricity like metals.
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Genetically Modified Foods: Monsters or Miracles?
by Nina Federoff
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Genetically Modified Foods: Monsters or Miracles? with Nina Fedoroff.
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Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
by Michael Sandel
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering with Michael Sandel and William Haseltine speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival. Elliot Gerson moderates the discussion.
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Science Versus the Biological Clock
by Nigel Cameron
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Despite advances in medical research, we're all getting older - but that hasn't stopped the scientific search for the Fountain of Youth.
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Tissue Engineering
by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Imagine a world where we could engineer living tissues to cure a disease, heal an injury, or fix a broken heart…
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How to be Right and Wrong
by John Cornforth
Available on: Online Video
The Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Cornforth, overcomes his deafness to present an elegant account of how he, and his wife Rita, disentangled a historically important puzzle in steroid synthesis.
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Forever Young
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
How long can we live, and how long do we want to live? Why do we change as we get old, and is there anything we can do to stop it?
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Biotechnology - Will It Create a New Industry?
by Henri A. Termeer
Available on: Online Video
Henri Termeer discusses growth of the 25-year-old biotech industry, including international mergers, R&D challenges and "product based" companies verses "platform based" companies.
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Nanotechnology and the Study of Human Diseases
by Subra Suresh
Available on: Online Video
Subra Suresh fleshes out the promise of nanotechnology, at least in regard to our understanding of disease.
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Authors@Google: J. Craig Venter
by J. Craig Venter
Available on: Online Video
J. Craig Venter visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life."
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Defying Death
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
We can now expect to live longer than ever before, and if we get ill, we expect to be made better! However new threats continue to emerge.
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Challenges to Implementation
by Jonathan D. Quick
Available on: Online Video
In this concluding panel about international drug pricing, speakers discuss the legal pitfalls and complexities involved in global pharmaceutical trade.
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Creativity and Computers
by Margaret Boden
Available on: Online Video
The concept of creativity from the point of view of how original ideas develop is explored with the aid of recent advances in computer modelling programming strategies.
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GM Foods
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
There have been many arguments for and against GM Foods, but the question still stands - are they potential saviours of mankind or a disaster waiting to happen?
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How X-Rays Cracked the Structure of DNA
by Amand Lucas
Available on: Online Video
An elegantly simple optical diffraction demonstration with an inexpensive laser pointer is used to show the way in which x-rays can reveal the structure of crystals…
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The Human Genome and Beyond
by Eric S. Lander
Available on: Online Video
"The Human Genome and Beyond" by Claude R. Canizares: Professor and Director, MIT Center for Space Research MIT Center for Space Research.
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Michael Crichton
by Michael Crichton
Available on: Online Video
Michael Crichton warns that the future is closer than we think.
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