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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Aug 9, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
ENCORE Medicine’s back.. and this time it’s personal. Get ready to have your genome read… your brain scanned… and undergo a chemical analysis so detailed, it’ll reveal the Twinkie you had for lunch. Everyone’s different, and reading those differences at the level of the gene may provide a more accurate profile of health and how to treat disease. But are you ready to know what’s wrong with you?
Discover the future of personalized medicine with biologist Craig Venter, as well as a man who turned his body over to the new science. Learn what his tests revealed.
Plus, why stem cell research really is a horse race. And, why getting sick is sometimes the best thing.
Guests:
Craig Venter - Genome scientist
Frank McCormick - Director of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco
David Ewing Duncan - Journalist and author of Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
Sharon Moalem - Neurogeneticist and Evolutionary Biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and author of Survival of the Sickest
Sean Owens - Director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the University of California, Davis
Julie Burges - Animal Health Technician, Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, University of California, Davis
Descripción en español
Discover the future of personalized medicine with biologist Craig Venter, as well as a man who turned his body over to the new science. Learn what his tests revealed.
Plus, why stem cell research really is a horse race. And, why getting sick is sometimes the best thing.
Guests:
Craig Venter - Genome scientist
Frank McCormick - Director of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco
David Ewing Duncan - Journalist and author of Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
Sharon Moalem - Neurogeneticist and Evolutionary Biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and author of Survival of the Sickest
Sean Owens - Director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the University of California, Davis
Julie Burges - Animal Health Technician, Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, University of California, Davis
Descripción en español
Released:
Aug 9, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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