Topic: Biotech
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Gee, Commercial Director, MNL Pharma, Ltd., about how simple sugars might yield a therapeutic effect in the fight against everything from diabetes to cancer. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Amit Sachdev, the Executive Vice President for Health BIO, The Biotechnology Industry Organization. They talk about proposals for increased measures to ensure safety *after* a drug has been approved. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Anders Zachrisson, Senior Vice President,
BioGaia, about the scientific studies testing "pro-biotics." He tells us about the scientific studies looking at probiotics, which are increasing in popularity today from Scandinavia to Asia. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Anders Zachrisson, senior vice president of BioGaia, on the science of "pro-biotics," the flip side to antibiotics. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira interviews Dr. David Sretavan, Professor, Opthamology & Physiology and Program in Neuroscience at UCSF who returns to tell us about the knife that cuts nerve endings one-fiftieth the width of a human hair. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. David Sretavan, Professor of Opthamology and Physiology and Program in Neuroscience at UCSF. He tells us how we might actually fuse severed nerve endings back together -- nerve endings one-fiftieth the width of a human hair. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Humans are found everywhere on Earth. Yet how did we get here? Why do we look the way we do? IBM and National Geographic are mounting the Genographic Project, an ambitious attempt to answer these fundamental questions. Kris Lichter talks about the how a worldwide, decentralized group of scientists collaborates on the largest DNA sample database ever assembled to understand the story of the human race. [Supernova 2005 from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Darwin Prockop, the Director of Tulane's Gene Therapy Center who tells us why he's been working with adult stem cells for over a decade, and the mystery of how they work. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
On a special long-format BioTech Nation segment, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Alan Zelicoff and Michael Bellomo, co-authors of "Microbe -- Are We Ready fo the Next Plague?" about a new public-health data base designed can fight outbreaks such as SARS, as well as defend against bioterrorism. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Valliant, a freelance writer and serial adventurer, who tells us the tale of a single genetic exception: The Golden Spruce, and its encounter with man and technology. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
