Recent Episodes
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FiB 95: So Long and Thanks for All the FiBs - We bring back all the co-hosts, panelists, and subject matter experts for a touchy feeling - warm and fuzzy feel good farewell.
Jul 6, 2012 – 1:39:51 -
FiB 94: Getting DNA Right-s - We navigate the waters of Biotechnology. Gene patents, how do you get them and why are they there? And once you have them, how are you going to finance your company and move forward?
Jun 8, 2012 – 1:07:20 -
FiB 93: Snyder's Omics - The technologies that our guest has developed are playing an important role in changing the world, not like the car, the microwave and the cell phone, but as in Drs. Flox, McCoy, and Crusher.
Apr 6, 2012 – 55:37 -
FiB 92: Foldit - Crowd Sourcing God's Work - Dr. David Baker explains how the game Foldit uses crowdsourcing to intelligently design artificial proteins never seen before in nature.
Mar 9, 2012 – 55:40 -
FiB 91: 6 PhDs Piled High and Deep - In this episode of Futures in Biotech, we talk about the Frontiers of Biotechnology - where the line between science and sci-fi are beginning to blur.
Dec 16, 2011 – 1:09:47 -
FiB 90: In-Silico Models of Organ Morphogenesis - In this episode of Futures in Biotech, Dr. Celeste Nelson, from Princeton University, explores the fundamental mechanisms of organ morphogenesis.
Dec 2, 2011 – 1:09:23 -
FiB 89: Towards Curing Malaria With Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler - Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler describes her approaches to drug discovery in an effort to tackle Malaria.
Nov 18, 2011 – 1:07:16 -
FiB 88: Cogito, Ergo Sum... Multitasking? - How understanding our mind will shape our futures with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.
Nov 4, 2011 – 1:12:39 -
FiB 87: Anti-Matter Message in a Magnetic Bottle - We talk with Jeffrey Hangst about the successful trapping of anti-hydrogen to hopefully answer some of our most important questions about the universe.
Sep 30, 2011 – 1:24:15 -
FiB 86: Biomasses for the Masses - Changing an Amish farm in Ohio into an energy source solution for modern times.
Sep 9, 2011 – 1:01:20 -
FiB 85: Modeling Life With the World's Most Powerful Computer System - Dr. Vijay Pande, Stanford's Director of Folding@Home, details how the world's most powerful system models Alzheimer's and other human diseases.
Aug 19, 2011 – 1:17:44 -
FiB 84: Biotech - Hot in Cleveland - Baiju Shah, President & CEO of BioEnterprise, explains how to transform a regional economy into a thriving biotechnological innovation center.
Jul 15, 2011 – 1:14:22 -
FiB 83: Bioinformatics: Essential Gene Names Skewed in a Network of Blame - Dr. Mark Gerstein from Yale University explains the essence of life through network theory.
Jul 8, 2011 – 1:44:44 -
FiB 82: Bionic Brain Symbionts: The Next Phage of Human Slurry - We discuss everything from symbiotic devices to human proteome phage to the race between transcription and translation, genetics gone wild.
Jun 24, 2011 – 1:23:06 -
FiB 81: Worm Research: The Buck Starts Here - Dr. Gordon Lithgow bridges the science of protein folding and life extension.
Jun 17, 2011 – 53:32 -
FiB 80: Light Up the Brain - Using optogenetics to study learning and cognition.
May 20, 2011 – 1:08:44 -
FiB 79: Oceans 20 - The Test Run, the technology that will transition us into the next era of medicine.
May 13, 2011 – 1:14:14 -
FiB 78: TWiV Infects FiB - It's a science mashup. FiB and TWiV together for one big show.
Mar 18, 2011 – 1:20:45 -
FiB 77: How The Environment and A Single Protein Influence Evolution - How the environment and a single protein influence evolution.
Mar 11, 2011 – 54:59 -
FiB 76: It's Time To Proteo Me - How mass spectrometry has become one of the most important technologies in our move toward personalized medicine.
Feb 25, 2011 – 1:08:25 -
FiB 75: It's Time To Start the Human Proteome - The move to the Human Proteome is the next big transition in modern medicine.
Feb 18, 2011 – 1:02:55 -
FiB 74: Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons with Dr. Judith Campisi - Seeking to better understand how cellular senescence contributes to the pathophysiology of aging.
Jan 14, 2011 – 59:34 -
FiB 73: The New Science of Aging - We will discuss the biotech of life extension with the scientist that discovered the Sirtuan family of genes.
Dec 17, 2010 – 1:01:40 -
FiB 72: A Four Billion Year Old Social Network - How controlling bacterial behavior may lead to a new class of urgently needed antibiotics.
Dec 10, 2010 – 47:17 -
FiB 71: Genomics, Proteomics, Cellular Immunity, and Anti-Matter - The '1000 Genome Project', 'Billion Dollar Human Proteome', viral killing proteins, and capturing anti-matter.
Nov 19, 2010 – 1:27:13 -
FiB 70: SBIR Funding: The Business of Science - How to fund the development of your own technology through SBIR funding.
Nov 5, 2010 – 1:09:47 -
FiB 69: The Power of Yeast Genetics - Looking at one of the most powerful genetic model systems: Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Oct 15, 2010 – 1:35:20 -
FiB 68: Rats Will Inherit the Earth - How studying mammalian biological history can help us better understand ourselves.
Oct 1, 2010 – 49:18 -
FiB 67: Triceratopping Egg Mountain - Dinosaur hunting with the man who inspired Jurassic Park.
Sep 17, 2010 – 51:32 -
FiB 66: The Homebrew Genomics Club - A first hand account on the genesis of the Human Genome Project.
Sep 10, 2010 – 1:05:49 -
FiB 65: Tackling Genetic Disease - Progress in molecular biology and the latest strategies for tackling genetic disease.
Aug 27, 2010 – 59:38 -
FiB 64: The Future Is Viral - Five scientists discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnology in a post-genomics era.
Jul 23, 2010 – 1:20:12 -
FiB 63: How to Use a Mouse - Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Capecchi teaches us how to use a mouse to dissect the human genome and understand disease.
Jul 2, 2010 – 50:26 -
FiB 62: X-Ray Crystallography - Dr. Alexander McPherson explains X-ray crystallography, a technique that will produce a true atomic anatomy of the human body.
Jun 25, 2010 – 1:07:16 -
FiB 61: One Heart Beat Away - Tackling problems of the heart with biotechnology.
Jun 15, 2010 – 1:07:16 -
FiB 60: Do You Come to This Cave Often? - Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more.
May 21, 2010 – 1:31:28 -
FiB 59: No Room for Failure - A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control.
May 10, 2010 – 1:39:54 -
FiB 58: Vertical Farms and Much, Much More With Dick Despommier - Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming.
Apr 16, 2010 – 1:12:20 -
FiB 57: Mechanisms of Non-Mendelian Inheritance in Evolution - How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.
Apr 2, 2010 – 58:15 -
FiB 56: New Antiviral Strategies with Karla Kirkegaard - A look into RNA viruses and more.
Mar 19, 2010 – 1:04:07 -
FiB 55: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 2 - Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar talks about how to improve electronic systems using biologically inspired design.
Feb 26, 2010 – 1:04:11 -
FiB 54: Personal Genome Project - Leo's Genome? - The Personal Genome Project: making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful.
Feb 23, 2010 – 1:20:49 -
FiB 53: Project Genome 10K - Mapping Life's Greatest Journey - Project Genome 10k, and how sequencing ten thousand vertebrate genomes will tell us about our past, present, and future.
Jan 26, 2010 – 52:59 -
FiB 52: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 1 - Bio-inspired and biomedical electronics, circuit modeling of biology, and more.
Dec 25, 2009 – 50:41 -
FiB 51: MRI Engineering Made Easy - How to build an MRI, and how it works.
Dec 18, 2009 – 1:01:44 -
FiB 50: More Biotech Stories - Marc and some the FiB regulars cover important stories in the biotechnology realm.
Dec 8, 2009 – 1:04:58 -
FiB 49: Brain-Machine Interfaces - Dr. Justin Sanchez walks us through the technology of brain machine interfaces.
Nov 17, 2009 – 1:05:24 -
FiB 48: Sequencing an Ocean's Genome - Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean.
Nov 2, 2009 – 51:13 -
FiB 47: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century - Dr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering
Sep 28, 2009 – 55:06 -
FiB 46: Towards Computers That Think - An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.
Sep 8, 2009 – 56:25
Recent Reviews
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Line & WaveA must!Found this podcast a few years ago and have been a fan ever since. Check the website to stream or DL the mp3s.
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Market_StudentExcellent podcast but....Fabulous selection of scientists with superb credentials but Marc has definitely a problem in that he hesitates too much, stumbles on words, stutters, and has difficulties formulating and expressing his thoughts. This is unfortunate as Marc is a very smart guy, entertaining and likable.
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Striated PatternInfrequent, but worthwhileMy favorite show on the TWIT network.
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brandanopgreat guests and topics but the host is hard to listen toI love the idea of this podcast. The guests they get are fantastic and the show covers very interesting topics. But unfortunately Marc, the host, is a poor interviewer. He is obviously very intelligent but has trouble expressing his thoughts and questions, and therefore does not make a good host. The earlier shows with Leo Leporte kept him on track but the later episodes with just Marc hosting are becoming more and more difficult to listen to. Marc has a nervous laugh and a stutter. He should write down his questions beforehand to get a more concise interview. Also better editing may improve the flow of the podcast. If Marc can improve his hosting skills, I'd give this 5 stars.
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David BrewerFinally a form of media that does not insult our intelligenceOftentimes the media available is so watered down and speaks to the lowest common denominator. Thankfully FIB speaks at a level that intelligent people, especially professional and students in the life sciences, can appreciate. With every episode I learn something new and especially love to get to hear the process of discovery for the researchers. Thanks to Leo for making it possible. Also hopefully Dr. Kiki will have her pod on here soon.
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Thom.ThomAmazing Podcast!I'm a student of bioengineering at UCLA and I absolutely LOVE this podcast. It teaches me so much about my field of study... maybe even more than my classes. The interviews are engaging, intelligent, and thought provoking.
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maviechezlerenardIncredible inteviews, but host not up to snuffThis podcast consistently gets brilliant, articulate, incredibly interesting guests at its disposal. I find myself re-listening to episodes now and again, and this is the only podcast I've ever done that with. Subscribe and listen – you wilI learn a lot, and not only about biotech. Marc has interviewed physicists, geologists, astronomers, computer scientists, and others, and they have all been inspiring and educational. Unfortunately the one thing working against this podcast is the host. I certainly wouldn't rather a bombastic mainstream-media type, but Marc is too much the opposite. He has a very irritating habit of chortling almost constantly - when he asks a question, when he listens to an answer, simply all the time. Furthermore he has so much trouble formulating his thoughts on the air that listening to him try to put together a question is excruciating. His interjections are either blubbering expressions of amazement at whatever the guest is talking about, or sometimes even go against the natural flow of the interview, both of which the guest must maneuver around. Marc is a smart guy and would be a great host if he: - Listened to a recording of his show and noticed his chortling, then made a concerted effort to not do it in the future. - Let the guests loose by asking broad questions and letting them talk pretty much about whatever they wanted. Despite these problems, I still rate Futures in Biotech with 4 stars simply because of the mind-blowing interviews and subject matter, neither of which I have found anywhere else.
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Page_95Futures in BiotechTo whom it may concern; The music at the beginning and end of the podcast has got to go! Please, it’s a good podcast otherwise. The music ruins it. Michelle New York NY
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Shadow^^Fantastic, Informative podcast!This is a great podcast. Very indepth and informative. The guests are people who are at the heart of Biotech research and know what they're talking about. Even with all the info, it's still accessible to those of us without P.H.D.s. They let you know what's coming up in the world, and certainly give you something to talk about while drinking coffee. Highly reccomended.
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tasowardsEverytime a job well doneThis isn't a podcast for those who crave wacky soundeffects or outragous host. Instead it is for all those people who are interested in the facts and the research. This podcast is right on with their info and up to date on their research. The hosts are smart and know what is going on in this field. Never do I feel they are just reading a script. Its just a smart podcast.
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podcast-addictGreat guests, but disappointing interviewsFutures in Biotech has a great collection of subjects and guests, but unfortunately Marc Pelletier talks too much, sometimes even interrupting the guests, and in an effort to make the show accessible to neophytes often asks sophomoric questions. I may be wrong, but I doubt neophytes are likely to subscribe, and it is unfortunate to have these great guests dumbing done their subject.
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WayneNTampaOutstandingThis podcast is consistently fascinating. I never cease to be amazed at the quality of guests and the topics discussed.
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kmiculichGreat for non bio-tech peopleIf you have any interest in bio technology, this is a fascinating show. I'm not a scientist (I'm an accountant), but even I can understand the topics. The hosts do a great job of keeping the explanations simple for non technical listeners. The guests and the work they do are fascinating. Highly recommend this podcast.
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ChrisscrewballBest science podcast out thereI'm a senior biology student and this podcast is by far my favorite. I can understand why people not in the field may find it to be too techinical but in reality that is my favorite part about the podcast. Most of the other science related podcasts seem to dumb things down or not go into complete detail and that's where Futures in Biotech shines.
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Joyce In SunnydaleToo TechnicalThe information is very good, but way too technical and boring. This podcast is strictly for the scientists who don't mind very dry content. I'm giving an extra star for content.
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DasutinLeo has done it again!I must say that this podcast is up there with all the other ones. Its true that Biotech is on the cutting edge of technology and this podcast proves it right. Keep up the good work and I hope to hear more in the future!
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DocArtemisGreat Guest on First Episode!Dr. Susan Linquist was great! Her work is fascinating I thougt she did a good job of defining potentially unfamilar terms. (If you thought the first podcast was "too technical" stay away from the Nature podcast too and consider reading a introductory biology text!) Marc need to work on not talking over his guests and not inhaling into the microphone, but these are problems that I am sure will go away as he gains experience.
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CharlieG373Thought provoking & challenging contentExcellent first try. They picked a great person to interview - cutting edge gene technology. Marc has some distance to go as an interviewer but brings very good scientific credentials to the table. Leo is a consummate professional and establishes continuity and access. Worth listening to.
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wunGreat PodcastIt's about time a relavent and technical podcast shows up! The information on the first one was presented by a real expert, not by some idiot that thinks their an expert. I cant wait for the next one!
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