Three mouthfuls of letters - RNAi, IPSCs and GWAS - encompass the hottest research topics in biomedical science today. The three technologies could revolutionise healthcare in the coming decades, although they are at different stages of development. RNAi or RNA interference offers a way to switch off genes - with immense therapeutic implications. ...

A prominent genetics institute recently sequenced its trillionth base pair of DNA, highlighting just how fast genome sequencing technology has improved this century. Every two minutes, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequences as many base pairs as all researchers worldwide did from 1982 to 1987, the first five years of international ...

Dr. Rod Wing, from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Bio-5 Institute, is using technology to reach out from the UA to people, especially hungry populations worldwide, through the fields of genomics and biotechnology to improve food crop production. Rod Wing and his team have puzzled out the complete genome of rice and corn and ...

X Prize and its vision of the future. Playlist videos include updates of the Google Lunar X Prize, the Automotive X Prize, and the Archon X Prize for Genomics.

BBC Horizon: Full length documentary 'Ghost in your genes' PBS Nova: Preview of updated documentary 'Ghost in your genes' This original documentary was broadcast in 2005 on the BBC. PBS NOVA has aired an updated version on October 16, 2007. Scientists have long puzzled over the different fates of identical twins: both have the same ...

Juan runs through new bio-technology like searching exhalations for DNA signatures of illness, operating on organs outside of the body and programmable cells to solve the worlds energy needs.

September 10, 2007. Riz Khan talks to Craig Venter, who in the 1990s led the race to map the human genome, the sequence of genes that govern the makeup of every cell of our bodies. Venter's own genome has been fully mapped recently.

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean's hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens of millions of microbes in a single drop of sea water.) He updates the TED audience ...

DNA is a programming language for living cells. The cell's basic operating system, or genome, directs functions like growth and reproduction, energy utilization, and the production of useful compounds like ethanol or penicillin. With genetic engineering, new functions can be added to cells or broken metabolic pathways repaired. Until recently, ...