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In your request for transcripts, cassettes and/or CDs, please
be sure to note the title of show(s). Choose from the five programs
listed below:
Planet of the Bugs: The Never-Ending
Tale of DNA and Infectious Disease
Will the DNA sequencing of pathogens like e-coli and staph help
us outwit them? What is new DNA research teaching us about our evolutionary
relationship with infectious disease? Is having a healthy immune
system genetic? This program looks at what we're learning about
infectious disease from DNA research.
Life: How to Make A Cosmic Omelet
Which came first, the cell or the DNA? Or maybe RNA? The relatively
new field of Astrobiology is seeking to understand how life arose
on earth, and where it might be found elsewhere. From slimy caves
to the barren North Pole, biologists are searching the most hostile
places on earth to find out in what range of extremes life can survive.
How or where would we look for life on other planets, if that life
is microbial? This program explores the questions about life that
are most difficult to answer.
Genetic Medicine: Prescription for Conflict
This program takes a look at the ethical and social implications
of the cutting-edge of genetic medicine. It will focus on three
controversial therapies, gene therapy, xenotransplantation, and
stem cell research, each of which has its own ethical conundrum.
How well is society equipped to deal with the advent of these approaches
to medicine? What are the issues at stake and who will decide them?
DNA: The Code of the Wild
DNA research has yielded a wealth of information about the natural
world, giving biologists new tools to understand the complex workings
of natural systems. They're discovering new evolutionary relationships,
the health of populations, and how to harness natural processes
to clean up human-caused problems. Other scientists are using transgenic
technology to create new species of microbes and plants which clean
up toxic waste.
The Search for the Fountain of Youth:
Genetics of Aging & Longevity
What if you could live another 100 years? How far away is science
from unlocking the key to the fountain of youth? Studies of worms,
flies and mice suggest there is a genetic component to aging which
we are just beginning to understand. What are scientists learning
about defeating Alzheimer's and cancer from the study of DNA? This
program explores a range of genetic longevity studies and what they
may yield.
Transcripts of the first series of The DNA Files
radio shows (broadcast beginning in November 1998), are currently
available free online, in pdf format. (Need Adobe
Acrobat Reader?).
Last Updated: February 2002
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