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The Origins of Cellular Life

by Jack Szostak
The Origins of Cellular Life
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1612 views
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The complexity of modern biological life has long made it difficult to understand how life could emerge spontaneously from the chemistry of the early earth. We are attempting to synthesize simple artificial cells in order to discover plausible pathwa....

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From Proto-oncogenes to Precision Oncology

by Harold Varmus
From Proto-oncogenes to Precision Oncology
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1814 views
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The diagnosis, classification, and treatment of human cancers are being transformed by scientific discoveries that were strongly influenced by the discovery of the c-src proto-oncogene, as described in the lecture by Michael Bishop. The path to this ....

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Cultural Values of Scientific Knowledge

by Werner Arber
Cultural Values of Scientific Knowledge
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 2868 views
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The acquisition of scientific knowledge largely depends on the availability of appropriate research approaches and methodologies. Novel scientific knowledge represents cultural values. On the one hand, it enriches our world-view with impacts on our....

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The Future of Life

by Christian de Duve
The Future of Life
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1349 views
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Ever since its first appearance, more than 3.5 billion years ago, life has evolved without guiding plan, propelled by: 1) its own intrinsic properties, which, with the help of outside energy, provided the necessary driving force; 2) accidental geneti....

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Updated Notions on Darwinian Evolution

by Werner Arber
Updated Notions on Darwinian Evolution
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1408 views
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Charles Darwin had based his theory of biological evolution on the observation that phenotypic variants of a given species can sometimes over-grow their parental population, and he attributed this to selective advantage, i.e., to the impact of natura....

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Climbing the Everest Beyond the Everest

by Ada Yonath
Climbing the Everest Beyond the Everest
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1724 views
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The challenges associated with pursuing ribosomal crystallography can be described as a series of Everest climbing. At each step, when reaching the summit, a taller and more difficult one became exposed. Snapshots of this story will be described.__....

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Biological Evolution in the Context of Cosmic Evolution and of Cultural Evolution

by Werner Arber
Biological Evolution in the Context of Cosmic Evolution and of Cultural Evolution
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1589 views
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After reconsidering the very long time periods in cosmic evolution, we will focus our attention to the evolutionary development of living organisms on our planet Earth. The genetic variants (mutations), which are occasionally produced, are alteratio....

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Man vs. Helicobacter _ The past 50,000 years and the next 50

by Barry Marshall
Man vs. Helicobacter _ The past 50,000 years and the next 50
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1622 views
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The epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori continues to be an area of discovery and controversy in the 21st century. The transmission of this bacterium from mother to child allows Helicobacter DNA to mimic the evolution of maternal mitochondria DNA. B....

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Molecular Catalysis for Green Chemistry

by Ryoji Noyori
Molecular Catalysis for Green Chemistry
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1355 views
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Science is inevitably intertwined with society.  The state of the art of science, coupled with industrial endeavors, has determined our quality of life.  Chemists are proud of their ability to generate high value from almost nothing by using accumu....

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Canoeing in the Arctic, a Scientist’s Perspective

by Peter Agre
Canoeing in the Arctic, a Scientist’s Perspective
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1587 views
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As scientists, our livelihoods are supported by teaching and research, but we also have the opportunity to make observations beyond our usual confines and share these with non-scientific citizens. Growing up in my native state of Minnesota, I have al....

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Chemistry: the Key to Our Future

by Ryoji Noyori
Chemistry: the Key to Our Future
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1386 views
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Chemistry is not merely a science of making observations in order to better understand Nature. Our science is creative and productive, generating substances of very high value from almost nothing. Chemists already have made enormous contribution to....

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The Science and Policy of Climate Change

by Mario Molina
The Science and Policy of Climate Change
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 935 views
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Climate change is the most serious environmental challenge facing society in the 21st century.  The basic science is clear: the International Panel on Climate Change concluded that there is more than 90% probability that human activities are causing....

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