with Host Dr. Moira Gunn
and BioIssueof the Week
Co-Host David Ewing Duncan
LIBRARY JOURNAL "BEST SCIENCE BOOKS of 2007"
Welcome to BioTech Nation by Dr. Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn named ...
!!! EE Times Educator of the Year 2008 !!!
The EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate
leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape
the world we live in. These creators, and their innovations,
will be recognized at the EE Times ACE Awards Gala on
April 15, 2008, as part of TechInsights' Embedded Systems
Conference Silicon Valley, the largest electronic systems
design event in North America.
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And in other good news ...
LIBRARY JOURNAL cites:
"Best Science Books of 2007"
Welcome to BioTech Nation by Dr. Moira Gunn
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SHOWS CURRENTLY AIRING ...
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July 15, 2008
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PAUL GOLDSTEIN
Lillick Professor of Law Stanford Law School
Author, A Patent Lie
Moira speaks with Stanford professor PAUL GOLDSTEIN fills us in on his latest legal thriller “A Patent Lie” ...
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DR. COLIN GARNER CEO, Xceleron
... on a new technology which could reduce the need for animal testing
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July 8, 2008
WILLIAM GIBSON
Award-winning science fiction author
Author, Spook Country
Moira speaks with Popular writer WILLIAM GIBSON, perhaps best known for coining the word “cyberspace.” He takes us on a GPS-based tour of cyber-art around the world ...
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DR. LEE GOLDSTEIN Boston University School of Medicine
... on an inadvertent discovery that just may lead to the world’s first Alzheimer diagnostic
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July 1, 2008
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... and on BioTech Nation:
BIO president Jim Greenwood and
BIO chair Josh Boger
... Our annual BIO conference wrap-up
Dr. Paul Tan CEO, Living Cell Technologies
... on feral pigs left some 200 years ago by whalers on subantarctic islands ... and now useful in treating diabetes
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June 24, 2008
SANDRA BLAKESLEE
New York Times contributor
Author, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Moira speaks with SANDRA BLAKESLEE about how neuroscience is revealing how our brains map out everything from phantom limbs to anorexia to even virtual reality ...
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HENRY PETROSKI
Professor, Civil Engineering and History Duke University
Author, The Toothpick
Moira speaks with HENRY PETROSKI about that simple and almost invisible technology – the toothpick ...
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"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us news about fear and anxiety in our brains ...
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June 17, 2008
MARYANNE WOLF
Director, Reading and Language Research Center Tufts University
Author, Proust and the Squid
Moira speaks with MARYANNE WOLF on how human brains have adapted since we invented writing and along with it reading ...
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DR. NORMA NOWAK
Director of Science and Technology
The New York State Center of Excellence
in BioInformatics and Life Sciences
... On some interesting new discoveries which could some day replace amniocentesis
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us what's in the news ...
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June 10, 2008
LEONARD MALTIN
Movie Critic and Historian
Author, Leonard Maltin’s 2008 Movie Guide
Moira speaks with movie critic and historian LEONARD MALTIN. They talk about technology, both in making movies and affecting the content therein ...
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DR. ANTHONY SMITHYMAN
Managing Director, Special Phage Services
... On the resurgence of interest in “phages”
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June 3, 2008
RICK SMOLAN
Photographer and Editor
Author, America at Home: A Close-Up Look at How We Live
Moira speaks with RICK SMOLAN. He'll tell us how hundreds of photographers spread out across America and recorded how we actually live. He’ll also give us the best tip ever about digital cameras ...
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Peter Lee
University of Auckland
... On how computers and biology worked together to give King Kong a personality
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us all about Tells us about the neurotech industry … that’s right – technology for our brains ...
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May 27, 2008
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... and on BioTech Nation:
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us all about the funding of the Food and Drug Administration. Do it need more funding? Or not? You make the call ...
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May 20, 2008
GERD LEONHARD
Music & Media Futurist
Author, Music 2.0
Moira speaks with Music Futurist GERD LEONHARD. He shares a new view of what music is all about – that means changes for both the big music companies and the consumer ...
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... Moira speaks with CHARLES BARBER about the rise of prescription medication for depression … and the similar rise in television advertising.
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us all about GINA – not the girl, but rather the act of Congress. ...
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May 13, 2008
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DR. ELAINE JOHNSON
Director, Bio-Link
... Moira speaks with DR. ELAINE JOHNSON about the easiest way to a biotech career. Dr. Johnson talk about the National Science Foundation-funded Bio-Link and - whether you've got a PhD or are no degree at all - the educational resources available at your local community college.
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May 6, 2008
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... and on BioTech Nation:
DR IAN WILMUT
Leader of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep
... David Ewing Duncan and Moira speak with IAN WILMUT. We’ll fondly recall Dolly the first cloned sheep as well as Frosty, the first calf born from a frozen embryo. And we’ll find out why it’s so darn hard to clone humans … even if we wanted to.
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April 29, 2008
DR GREG STOCK
President and CEO, Signum Biosciences
DR JENNIE HUNTER-CEVERA
President, UMBI, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
DR. EMANUAL PETRICOIN
Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Theranostics Health
DR. LANCE LIOTTA
Co-Founder and Vice President for R&D, Theranostics Health
Moira and David Ewing Duncan host a panel of experts from the BIO IT 7th Annual Conference on the state of Healthcare and Medical Technology 2028. The subject? Changing Biotech. Not only how it is changing now, but also what would these experts do to change biotech today, to make the world a better place.
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April 22, 2008
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... and on BioTech Nation:
DR LYN BEAZLEY
Chief Scientist, Western Australia
... on how Australia is so very different from any other continent, and why biotech is interested
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David links the contributions of Arthur C. Clarke and biotech ...
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April 15, 2008
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... and on BioTech Nation:
DR. HERB HAUPTMANN
1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... How a mathematician could win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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April 8, 2008
WAGNER JAMES AU
3D Virtual Journalist and Author, The Making of Second Life
Moira speaks with WAGNER JAMES AU, who embedded himself as a journalist on the virtual 3-D world, Second Life ...
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DR. DAVID SPENCER
Senior Vice President for R&D, Biolex Therapeutics
... about a new approach to Hepatitis C
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David looks at the proposed Neurotechnology Initiative in Congress ...
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April 1, 2008
STEVEN LEVY
Technology Editor Newsweek
Editor, The Best of Technology Writing 2007
Moira speaks with Newsweek Technology Editor STEVEN LEVY about the best technology writing of 2007, and how to submit your own for 2008
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SCOTT SIGLER
Author, Infected
Moira speaks with SCOTT SIGLER talks about his bioterror thriller "Infected". While it's based on the premise of a biological weapon on the loose, he's actually a modern day Charles Dickens
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DR JIM HENGST
President, ZeptoMetrix
... about how scientists get everything from anthrax to HIV to SARS for their research
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David looks at treatments grown from our own DNA ...
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March 25, 2008
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DR. DEVRA DAVIS
Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
and Prevent Cancer Now
Author, The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Moira speaks with DR. DEVRA DAVIS about the environment, cancer and a future plan for success
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March 18, 2008
CLAY SHIRKY
Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU
Author, Here Comes Everybody ... The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Moira speaks with CLAY SHIRKY about the relationship between social networks and technical networks. Now with texting, and digital photos and cell phones, everything from politics to socializing will never be the same
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...on Venture Capital and neurotech
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David talks about next-generation DNA technology ...
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March 11, 2008
LONNY SHAVELSON
Author, Under the Dragon: California's New Culture
JAMES LEBRECHT
President, Berkeley Sound Artists
Moira speaks with LONNY SHAVELSON and JAMES LEBRECHT about California’s New Culture - the melding and emergence of the ethnic experience. It is both a book and a photo/sound exhibition at the Oakland Museum, in Oakland, California through April 6, 2008.
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... it's organiz biodiesel. We’ll make biodiesel and eat the byproducts ... or at least talk about doing it.
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David talks about celebrate the anniversary of PCR – Polymerase Chain Reaction, the basis for our DNA technology ...
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March 4, 2008
TERRY COLLINS
Lord Professor of Green Oxidation Chemistry
Carnegie-Mellon University
Moira speaks with Carnegie-Mellon's TERRY COLLINS about an innovative technique for taking minute traces of material out of our drinking water - the reason? Removing those nasty endocrine disruptors
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LUIS VON AHN
Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Moira speaks with Carnegie-Mellon Computer Scientist LUIS VON AHN about Captcha's, those squiggly images you are presented with on the Internet and asked to decode the letters
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DAVE MARTIN
{resident & CEO , AVID BIOTICS
... a new approach to fighting virulent staph infections
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February 26, 2008
JIM FOWLER
Co-Founder & CEO, Jigsaw
Moira speaks with Jigsaw's JIM FOWLER. Their members have built an online global directory with millions of business contacts ... all on a volunteer basis
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DAN WELCH
President & COO, Intermune
... from lung diseases to osteoporosis to Hepatitus C and beyond
Intermune is one of over a thousand San Francisco Bay Area biotech companies working in human health. Download a copy of the BayBIO Impact repot 2008 or ask for one to be sent free of charge on the web at BayBIO.org
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David reports on DNA and the Chickenasaurus ...
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February 19, 2008
CHARLES HANDY
Management Theory Pioneer
Author, Myself and Other More Important Matters
Moira speaks with CHARLES HANDY, long known for his management insights. They’ll talk about what motivates people in business in the modern tech world
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ROBERT BLUM
President & COO, Cytokinetics
... about their eye on the patent clock and other biotech entrepeurial concerns
Cytokinetics is one of over a thousand San Francisco Bay Area biotech companies working in human health. Download a copy of the BayBIO Impact repot 2008 or ask for one to be sent free of charge on the web at BayBIO.org
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us about a new effort to collect lots of human DNA ...
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February 12, 2008
SIR EDMUND HILLARY
Mountaineer
With Tensing Norgay, first to climb Everest
Moira speaks with SIR EDMUND HILLARY. Honoring his recent passing, this 1993 Tech Nation interview talks about his climb and the technology of mountaineering.
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KIM POPOVITS
President & COO, Genomic Health
... about a DNA-based breast cancer diagnostic
Genomic Health is one of over a thousand San Francisco Bay Area biotech companies working in human health. Download a copy of the BayBIO Impact repot 2008 or ask for one to be sent free of charge on the web at BayBIO.org
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us about mercury in fish ...
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February 5, 2008
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MATT GARDNER
President & CEO, BayBIO
... about the 2008 update to their Annual Biotech Report.
Download a copy or ask for one to be sent free of charge on the web at BayBIO.org
"The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David tells us about neuroeconomics ...
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January 29, 2008
DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS
2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Founder, Grameen Bank
Author, Creating a World Without Poverty
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS. They talk about his vision for utilizing information technology to alleviate poverty and literally change the world
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