Futures in Biotech 60: Do You Come To This Cave Often?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 07:26AM Host: Marc Pelletier
Guests: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D., Andre Nantel, Ph.D., Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., and George Farr, Ph.D.
In this episode, a panel of scientists discuss recent stories including face recognition in primates, a new cure for HCV, changing the genetic code from three to four bases, and lastly, interspecies breeding between modern humans and neanderthals…
Papers Discussed:
Adachi, I., Chou, D.P., and Hampton, R.R. (2009). Thatcher effect in monkeys demonstrates conservation of face perception across primates. Curr Biol 19: 1270–1273.
Gao, M. et al. (2010). Chemical genetics strategy identifies an HCV NS5A inhibitor with a potent clinical effect. Nature 465: 96–100.
Gibson, D.G. et al. (2010). Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome. Science .
Green, R. et al. (2010). A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome. Science 328: 710–722.
Neumann, H., Wang, K., Davis, L., Garcia-Alai, M., and Chin, J.W. (2010). Encoding multiple unnatural amino acids via evolution of a quadruplet-decoding ribosome. Nature 464: 441–444.
Reader Comments (2)
Citation for the papers mentioned would be great, especially the HCV paper. Thanks.
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