Doctor Hyman
Debunking The Cancer-Genetic Link
I’m joined by Dr. Jason Fung on The Doctor’s Farmacy to discuss how our environment has a huge impact on our ability to prevent or treat cancer—from the air we breath to the food we […]
genetics
Ted Talks
An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease | Lara Durgavich
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropologist Lara Durgavich discusses the field of […]
Ted Talks
The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. The cells in your body are like computer software: they're "programmed" to carry out specific functions at specific times. […]
Ted Talks
How we’re building the world’s largest family tree | Yaniv Erlich
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, subtitles, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world's largest family tree — comprising 13 million people and going back […]
Doctor Hyman
Do Your Genes Determine Your Destiny?
Epigenetics suggests that our behavior can influence which of our genes are turned on or off. This has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine. Predisposition is not pre-destiny and a familial history of […]
Ted Talks
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it | Rob Reid
The world-changing promise of synthetic biology and gene editing has a dark side. In this far-seeing talk, author and entrepreneur Rob Reid reviews the risks of a world where more and more people have access […]
Ted Talks
How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory
Plants are amazing machines — for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chory is working […]
Ted Talks
Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA? | David R. Liu
In a story of scientific discovery, chemical biologist David R. Liu shares a breakthrough: his lab's development of base editors that can rewrite DNA. This crucial step in genome editing takes the promise of CRISPR […]
Ted Talks
The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign […]
Doctor Hyman
The Secrets to Creating a Healthy Immune System
The immune system: we hear about it all the time, especially this time of year as cold and flu season is in full swing. But there’s a lot more to it than just your susceptibility […]