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.
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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.
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We bring back all the co-hosts, panelists, and subject matter experts for a touchy feeling - warm and fuzzy feel good farewell. FiB is moving to: Microbe TV
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Mark Griswold, Jasen Buch, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, Andre Nantel, Ph.D, David Thomas, Justin Sanchez, Ph.D, and Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
We navigate the waters of Biotechnology. Gene patents, how do you get them and why are they there? And once you have them, how are you going to finance your company and move forward?
Eileen Smith Ewing is a shareholder of GreenbergTraurig, Boston, MA; Chair, Committee on Biotechnology; & Chair, Life Sciences Division, American Bar Association
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Denise Howell
Guest: Eileen Smith Ewing
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
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The technologies that our guest has developed are playing an important role in changing the world, not like the car, the microwave and the cell phone, but as in Drs. Flox, McCoy, and Crusher.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Andre Nantel, Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Michael Snyder
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. David Baker explains how the game Foldit uses crowdsourcing to intelligently design artificial proteins never seen before in nature.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Markus Veolter
Guest: Dr. David Baker
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
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In this episode of Futures in Biotech, we talk about the Frontiers of Biotechnology - where the line between science and sci-fi are beginning to blur.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Mark Gerstein, David Thomas, Justin Sanchez, Ph.D, and Simon Melov, PhD
Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
In this episode of Futures in Biotech, Dr. Celeste Nelson, from Princeton University, explores the fundamental mechanisms of organ morphogenesis.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Andre Nantel, Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Celeste Nelson, Ph.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler describes her approaches to drug discovery in an effort to tackle Malaria.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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How understanding our mind will shape our futures with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D
Guest: Adam Gazzaley
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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We talk with Jeffrey Hangst about the successful trapping of anti-hydrogen to hopefully answer some of our most important questions about the universe.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Jeffrey Hangst
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Changing an Amish farm in Ohio into an energy source solution for modern times.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Jon Griswold, Matthew J. Griswold, CFA, and Mark Griswold
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. Vijay Pande, Stanford's Director of Folding@Home, details how the world's most powerful system models Alzheimer's and other human diseases.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Vijay S. Pande
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Baiju Shah, President & CEO of BioEnterprise, explains how to transform a regional economy into a thriving biotechnological innovation center.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Baiju Shah, J.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. Mark Gerstein from Yale University explains the essence of life through network theory.
Here you can find an important podcast: Biological Network Analysis
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Mark Gerstein
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
We discuss everything from symbiotic devices to human proteome phage to the race between transcription and translation, genetics gone wild.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Andre Nantel, Ph.D and Justin Sanchez, Ph.D
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. Gordon Lithgow bridges the science of protein folding and life extension.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Simon Melov, PhD
Guest: Gordon Lithgow, Ph.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Using optogenetics to study learning and cognition.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Ann M. Graybiel
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
The Test Run, the technology that will transition us into the next era of medicine.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: Mark Gerstein
Guest: Dr. Tommy Nilsson
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
It's a science mashup. FiB and TWiV together for one big show.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D
Guests: Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., Alan Dove, Ph.D, and Richard Condit, Ph.D
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How the environment and a single protein influence evolution.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Dr. Susan Lindquist and Daniel Jarosz, Ph.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How mass spectrometry has become one of the most important technologies in our move toward personalized medicine.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D
Guest: Ruedi Aebersold
Sponsored by: Synergy 1.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
The move to the Human Proteome is the next big transition in modern medicine.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Dr. John Bergeron and Dr. Tommy Nilsson
Sponsored by: Synergy 1.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. Judith Campisi's scientific investigations are at the nexus between cancer and aging. She seeks to better understand how cellular senescence contributes to the pathophysiology of aging.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Simon Melov, PhD and Dr. Judith Campisi, Ph.D.
Sponsored by: Synergy 1.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
We will discuss the biotech of life extension with the scientist that discovered the Sirtuan family of genes.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Simon Melov, PhD
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How controlling bacterial behavior may lead to a new class of urgently needed antibiotics.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Dr. Bonnie Bassler
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Sponsored by: Synergy 1.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
The '1000 Genome Project', 'Billion Dollar Human Proteome', viral killing proteins, and capturing anti-matter.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, and Andre Nantel, Ph.D
Co-Host: George Farr, Ph.D.
Guest: Mark Gerstein
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Sponsored by: Synergy 1.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How to fund the development of your own technology through SBIR funding.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Lisa Kurek
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Looking at one of the most powerful genetic model systems, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with Malcolm Whiteway, Ph.D NRC-CNRC Group leader for Biotechnology Research institute, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D
Guest: Malcolm Whiteway, Ph.D
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How studying mammalian biological history can help us better understand ourselves.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Darin Croft, Ph.D
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dinosaur hunting with the man who inspired Jurassic Park, Dr. Jack Horner, curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and Montana State University Regents' Professor of Paleontology.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Dr. Jack Horner
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
A first hand account on the genesis of the Human Genome Project with our guest, Dr. David Botstein, Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Andre Nantel, Ph.D
Guest: Dr. David Botstein
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Progress in molecular biology and the latest strategies for tackling genetic disease.
Our guest is David Thomas, professor and chair, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University; Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D
Guest: David Thomas
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Five scientists, George Farr, Mark Griswold, Dave Brodbeck, Vincent Racaniello and David Thomas, discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnology in a post-genomics era.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Mark Griswold, Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, and David Thomas
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Capecchi teaches us how to use a mouse to dissect the human genome and understand disease.
Our guest is Mario Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Dr. Alexander McPherson explains X-ray crystallography, a technique that will produce a true atomic anatomy of the human body.
Books referenced in this episode: Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS. Introduction to Macromolecular Crystallography, WILEY BLACKWELL.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: George Farr, Ph.D.
Guest: Dr. Alexander McPherson
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Tackling problems of the heart with biotechnology.
Our guest is Julian Stelzer, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Julian E. Stelzer, PhD
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D, Andre Nantel, Ph.D, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, and George Farr, Ph.D.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control from Michael Vucelic, former Apollo system manager for NASA and Rockwell.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Michael Vucelic
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming.
Our guest is Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Host of This Week in Virology; Host of This Week in Parasitism.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D
Guest: Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.
Our guests are Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., professor of biology at MIT and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simon Alberti, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Randal Halfmann, a grad student in Dr. Lindquist's lab at MIT
Host: Marc Pelletier
Co-Host: George Farr, Ph.D.
Guests: Dr. Susan Lindquist and Simon Alberti
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
A look into RNA viruses and more with Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Karla Kirkegaard
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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 biologically inspired design.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Justin Sanchez, Ph.D and Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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 of the Center for Computational Genetics.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte
Guest: Dr. George Church
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth
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, University of California at Santa Cruz, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Dr. David Haussler
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Justin Sanchez, Ph.D, Mark Griswold, and Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
How to build an MRI, and how it works.
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Mark Griswold
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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, Ph.D
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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 machine interfaces.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dr. Kiki Sanford
Guest: Justin Sanchez, Ph.D
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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.
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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.
Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog provided by PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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 Daniel J. Levitin, Narrated by Edward Herrman. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D
Guest: Terrence Sejnowski
Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.
Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint
Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.