Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering and Health Care (Part Two
Glycomics, the study of sugars’ role in living systems, is a relative newcomer to the revolution in molecular biology. In fact, Ram Sasisekharan remembers how colleagues told him “not to work on carbohydrates -- that it was useless.” But his research has shown that glycans, observed as long chains or intricat
Innovation in Post-Launch Surveillance and Pharmaco-Vigilance
(Part Two)
These panelists describe struggling to transform their approach to drug safety, while acknowledging the need to regain public trust after troubling episodes involving drug side effects.
Névine Zariffa points out that “no clinical trial program known to man will ever help predict every single instance of ev
Innovation in Manufacturing and Distribution Systems (Part Three)
Genzyme is a leader in personalized medicine, as Mark Bamforth demonstrates. For instance, the company collects cartilage from a single patient, grows it in the lab, and sends it back securely to that same patient. The system, says Bamforth, tolerates “no mix ups.” But the company also deals in drugs sen
Innovation in Bio-Safety Testing from Pre-Clinical to Product Launch
(Part Four)
“To me, systems biology is the religion you switch to when target-based drug discovery doesn’t work,” Noubar Afeyan states boldly. He claims that after losing billions of dollars, the pharmaceutical industry and academia are beginning to see the value in testing drugs by measuring outcomes in biological networks. He
Change Your Mind: Memory and Disease
How do we distinguish our friends from foes? How does dementia destroy memory? And how can past experience invade the present with destructive force? Scientists are closing in on the biochemical roots of these neurological puzzles.
Thomas Insel describes the profound impact of a small group of neuropeptides on
The Implications of Synthetic Biology
There’s no mistaking Drew Endy’s profession: “I like to make things -- that’s what I do.” From his engineer’s perspective, the slow and painful methods of bioengineering demand a solution. Endy hopes to refine the tools necessary to move the field forward. “We’re going from looking at the living world as only c
Nigel Andrews GLS 2010 interview Chris Gibson-Smith GLS 2010 interview Stephen Olabisi Onasanya GLS 2010 interview The Slave Trade Education for Citizenship, Part Two Jamestown Unearthed, Part One The Butcher, the Baker Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style Gingerbread Houses The Scientific Method Song 013 Hilary: The Square Well 019 Diatomic Molecules and Orbital Angular Momentum Raico the Great [Foreword to Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico (2010)] For many years, I have described Ralph Raico as "my favorite historian." When David Theroux and I we
Nigel Andrews (MSc11) on what we can learn from emerging markets
Dr Chris Gibson-Smith, Chairman, London Stock Exchange, on what we can learn from emerging markets
Stephen Olabisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director and CEO, First Bank of Nigeria, on what we can learn from emerging markets
The slave trade touched the lives of people around the globe, explains Colonial Williamsburg's Educational Program Development director Bill White.
Citizen participation is as vital to democracy today as it was at the dawn of our nation, says Colonial Williamsburg Foundation President Colin Campbell.
The most impartial chronicle of Jamestown Settlement is in its trash. Curator Bly Straube explains.
One sheep's fleece supplies half a dozen trades. Shepherdess Carrie MacDougal spins the tale.
Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.
The town is rendered in gingerbread once a year at Colonial Williamsburg. Executive Pastry Chef Joe Sciegaj oversees the construction.
In this student made video, Matt Fisher sings a song about the Scientific Method using the music from the theme to the Brady Bunch. Lyrics are not included. Run time 0:42.
Thirteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010
Nineteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010
