Futures in Biotech (Audio)
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.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 94
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2012
FiB 55: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 2
Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor, of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about how to improve electronic systems using biol…
FiB 54: Personal Genome Project - Leo's Genome?
The Personal Genome Project: making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful.
Our guest is Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director o…
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.
Our guest is Dr. David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, Unive…
FiB 52: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 1
Bio-inspired and biomedical electronics, circuit modeling of biology, and more.
Our guest is Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massac…
FiB 51: MRI Engineering Made Easy
How to build an MRI, and how it works.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Mark Griswold
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Tha…
FiB 50: More Biotech Stories
Marc and some the FiB regulars cover important stories in the biotechnology realm.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D, Justin Sanchez, Ph.D, and Vincent Racaniello…
FiB 49: Brain-Machine Interfaces
Dr. Justin Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, walks us through the technology of brain mach…
FiB 48: Sequencing an Ocean's Genome
Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Andre Nantel, Ph.D
Guest: Edward Delong, Ph.D.
For a free audiobook, visit…
FiB 47: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century
Dr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Andre Nantel, Ph.D and Dr. Oliver Smithies
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
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FiB 46: Towards Computers That Think
An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.
Audible pick: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Abridged, By Danie…
FiB 45: How To Make A Mouse
Marc talks with Dr. Oliver Smithies, Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007 Nobel Laureate, and father of mammalian genetic engineering.
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FiB 44: Cogito Ergo Sum by fMRI
Our guest is John Gabrieli; Grover Herman Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Looking directly into…
FiB 43: Temporal Alien Mammoth Overlords
From wooly mammoths, to cybernetics, and controlling your computer with your brain, a panel discusses the recent big stories in bioscience.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, An…
FiB 42: Sneezing Pandaemic
Our guest is Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., is a professor of Microbiology at Columbia University Medical Center and the host of This Week in Virology.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Vincent Racaniell…
FiB 41: Modeling Life With The World's Fastest Computer
A follow-up look at Folding@Home, the world's most powerful distributed computing cluster, designed to perform computationally intensive protein folding simulations.
Our guest is Dr. Vijay S. Pande,…
FiB 40: Virus Reborn
Leading virologist Peter Palese explains why he revived a virus that killed 50 million people.
Our guest is Peter Palese, professor and chair of microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in…
FiB 39: Food, Genetically Modified
Dr. Lisa Weasel discusses the controversies surrounding genetically-modified foods.
Our guest is Dr. Lisa Weasel, associate professor of biology at Portland State University in Oregon, a member of G…
FiB 38: It Is Easy Being Green
How Dr. Martin Chalfie transformed a green fluorescent jellyfish protein into the most important biological marker used today.
Our guest is Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department …
FiB 37: Just A Touch Of Green
Our guest is Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses touch. In Part II, Chalfie describes how he develope…
FiB 36: Avoiding Death, Not Taxes with Dr. Cynthia Kenyon
Our guest is Dr. Cynthia Kenyon; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging.
We a…