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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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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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Our Bodies, Our Technologies
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Digital 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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Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
by Mark Walport
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Designer Babies: Human genetic engineering is a step too far.
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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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Genomic Medicine
by Atul J. Butte
Available on: Digital Download
This course reviews the key genomic technologies and computational approaches that are driving advances in prognostics, diagnostics, and treatment.
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Bio Science in the 21st Century
by Dimitrios Vavylonis
Available on: Video Download
Lectures taking place at Lehigh are given by many experts in their fields and cover a broad spectrum of topics.
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Arizona State University Arts and Sciences Lectures
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
ASU maintains its position on the cutting edge of art and science by understanding the complex relationships between the two.
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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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Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
CSRC - Audio - Braden Allenby: From Human to Transhuman, Technology and the Reconstruction of the World
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Communication Theory
by Norbert Elliot
Available on: Digital Download
This course will introduce students to communication theory and practice.
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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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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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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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Tissue Engineering
by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Available on: Digital 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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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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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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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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Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
by Michael Sandel
Available on: Digital 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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Nuclear Cloning and Cell Therapy
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
The subject of cloning can instantly spark passionate debate: Will it enable us to resurrect beloved family members, or create Frankensteins? Rudolf Jaenisch wants to remove “hot air” from the discussion.
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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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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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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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Engineering and Technology in a New Millenium
by Rich Brand
Available on: Video Download
This lecture explains the technology available for testing newborn children for hearing capabilities. Early diagnosis is crucial for normal speech development.
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