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Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "...
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Boys and toys
Pharyngula —
This is a wonderful video: it's Richard Dawkins interviewing Craig Venter and getting a tour of his amazing sequencing facility. It also reveals how much the technology is changing.
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Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter
3quarksdaily —
Great video
R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S. —
If you have a spare 50 minutes, then this uncut interview of Craig Venter by Richard Dawkins is well worth watching - he takes Richard Dawkins on a tour of his sequencing facility. And shows him their current machines and the ABI and Roche 454 machines they were also trying out as well as the robots used for cloningin E.coli necessary for their existing technology. For those of us who enjoy seeing what other people's labs look like it is great and it gave me a good pause for thought about the future direction of biology too. ...
The leap forward
The Curious Wavefunction —
In 5 to 10 years, I could walk into a doctor's office and for less than 1000$ have my genome sequenced. This could tell me how likely I am to get Alzheimer's disease, cancer or heart disease. Such possibilities open up enormous technical, legal and moral challenges. ...
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