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Genetic Manipulation in Stem Cells

Biologist Rudolf Jaenisch on the problems of developmental biology, isogenic control, and homologous recombination

Measuring Chirality

Physicist John Doyle on ibuprophen's capacity to relief pain, orientation of dipole moments, and 'handedness' of molecules

Geneticist Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii on replacing DNA with other molecules, peptide nucleic acid, and new types of life

Mathematics of Signal Processing

Mathematician Gilbert Strang on the difference between cosine and wavelet functions, audio compression, and the JPEG format

Genomics of Long-lived Mammals

Biologist Vadim Gladyshev on UCP1, p16 proteins, the Brandt's bat and the naked mole rat phenomenon

Shock Electrodialysis

Chemical engineer Martin Z. Bazant on understanding dynamics at intermediate scale, "deionization shocks", and the process of over-limiting current to membranes

Teaching Online

Physicist Walter Lewin on massive open online courses, OpenCourseWare at MIT, and how it all started from "help sessions" in 1980s

Electron – Positron Annihilation

Physicist Frank Taylor on quarks, muons, and the Standard Model

Heritage Language

Harvard Prof. Maria Polinsky on receptive bilingualism, the "First In Last Out" hypothesis, and what people forget first – verbs or nouns

Slow and Stopped Light

Harvard Prof. Mikhail Lukin on the quantum mechanical switch, improving the lifetime of our memory, and quantum artificial intelligence

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