Transcript Time Magazine

Time Magazine
Genomics and You
Time Magazine
• General news magazine
• Personal interest
• Sticks to the news, keeps it simple.
The Secret of Life
• Intro course to genetics.
• Possible uses of genetics.
• Fears of misuse, or a Gattaca-like future
Nature vs Nurture
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Fundamental argument of personality.
Nature - Genes control everything.
Nurture – Environment controls everything.
Discovery of new genes changed argument
• Language – Gives us verbal and written skill.
• Love – Causes animals to bond strongly.
• Antisocial – Imparts resistance to abuse.
• Crime – Tendency to commit crime genetic?
Are your genes to blame?
• Study on twin’s similarities
• More than just physical looks shared
• Single genes for everything?
• Genetics determines basic wiring
Search for a Murder Gene
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Single gene triggers violence?
Nature vs nurture debate.
Combination of nature and nurture
85% abused with defective gene commit
violent acts.
Real Men Get The Blues
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Preteens suffer depression at the same rate.
After puberty, women are more depressed.
Later in life, more men become depressed.
Two possible causes found:
Women have more “depression genes”
Men’s drop off in testosterone triggers it.
Cures on the Cob
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Biopharming
Lower drug cost, available to more people.
Fears of genetic contamination?
Preventions against genetic contamination.
Medicine landing on our dinner plates?
A Successful Failure
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Attempts to create an AIDs vaccine failed.
However it produces interesting results.
Certain sections of population gain immunity
Binds to receptors on HIV, but not all are
affected.
Will This Experiment Work?
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Biotech’s past of boom and bust.
Investors unsure of the industry.
New developments bringing drugs to market
New drugs could revitalize the biotech
industry.
• New commissioner of FDA helping process.
Here’s to Your Health
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New drugs coming to market.
Anti-depression drug Cymbalta
Anti-Cholesterol drug Crestor
Erectile Dysfunction Levitra, Cialis
Cancer Treatment Erbitux, Avastin
Future Visions
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Watson – Rid people of fat.
Cellular therapies to combat disease.
Personalized medicine based on genetics.
Living longer, fountain of youth.
Ability to repair defective genes.
Nanotech and biologically inspired
computers.