Tagged: genetics

Health
12:10 pm
Thu November 8, 2012

Charles Sabine On Genetic Testing

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Charles Sabine in Capetown, 2009.

Charles Sabine was a war correspondent with NBC for 25 years, covering conflicts all over the world — including Bosnia, Baghdad, and the Rwanda genocide. His reporting garnered him an Emmy and many other journalism awards. But four years ago his focus completely changed after getting a genetic test that revealed a lethal fate.

Ross Reynolds talks with Charles Sabine about what it is like to know you have deadly and degenerative disease in your future and the risks and rewards of genetic testing.

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Genetics
12:01 pm
Mon October 29, 2012

George Church: The Harvard Biologist Behind The Personal Genome Project

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Professor George Church

George Church says scientists may one day be able to resurrect wooly mammoths and use bacteria to make cups or grow houses. David Hyde discusses the science with professor George Church.