DNA sequencing is becoming faster, cheaper, and better. It can tell you about your parentage, ancestry, and risks for genetic diseases, but cannot tell you about your psychology, life history, or learned behaviors. While your genome can be sequenced for $1000, it is important to recognize both its benefits and limitations, as DNA determines your physical traits but does not define who you are as a person. Understanding what genetic information means is more challenging than simply sequencing DNA.
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I developed this powerpoint when I taught River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins. Most of the students found Dawkins to be fascinating, but they weren't so hot on the actual book.
Information Theory and the Demise of DarwinismFred Williams
Evolutionists claim that life arose by random mutation and natural selection. While numerous holes in this “theory” have been exposed time and again across the scientific spectrum, perhaps the greatest unmasking has come from the fields of molecular biology and genetics. Intersecting these fields is the science of information, which by itself poses overwhelming problems for any concept that relies on randomness and chance outside of intelligence. This presentation will walk you through the different ideas of what information is, and how its presence in the biological world is an insurmountable hurdle for evolution to overcome.
On the Destiny of the Species: What Would Darwin Think 150 Years After 'The ...martine
Presentation about the morphing from genes to bemes as the next step in the quest for survivable self-replication codes, delivered at World Transhumanist Association meeting in Chicago
The Discovery of DNA Essay
DNA EXTRACTION Essay
DNA Essay
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Dna Replication Essay examples
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Essay On DNA Discoveries
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20. DNA is what makes you
who you are, but you are a
lot more than just your DNA
21. DNA is extremely useful so
take advantage of it. Don’t
be afraid of it, but recognize
its limitations.
22. DNA is cheap, fast, and easy
to sequence.
Understanding what it
means is the hard part.
23. The Thousand Genomes Project
Free for download
on Amazon Cloud.
All 200 Terabytes of it.
24.
25. “I think the biggest innovations of
the 21st century will be at the
intersection of biology and
technology. A new era is beginning.”
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
26. Videos
• Richard Resnick - TEDxBoston 2011: Welcome to the
genomic revolution
• George Church – TEDMED 2010: Personal genomes
• Greg Lucier – TEDMED 2010: When will the genomic
medicine revolution finally happen?
• Barry Schuler – TED Taste 2008: Genomics 101
• Juan Enriquez – TED 2003: On genomics and our
future
27. Books
• Lone Frank: My beautiful genome (2011)
• Kevin Davies: The 1000$ genome (2010)
• Misha Angrist: Here is a human being (2010)
• Francis S. Collins: The language of life (2010)
Editor's Notes
Brief background on evolution of sequencing technologies + price drop: Single molecule approachesSemi conductor chip for sequencing DNA directly on chipNano pore based sequencing approachPull DNA through nano poreNo accuracy or throughput stats yetDNAe (DNA electronics) -real time disposable gene testsBacks Ion torrent and Roche 454 technologySemiconductor technology
23AndMe (Personal genomics)Mobile devices, social media,Facebook twitter LinkedIn-->personal genomic dataE.g. warfarin Test carrier diseases (test parents before pregnancy)23andWe discoveries. E.g found protein that appears to be protective125000 individuals in databaseeducational content to promote genetic literacy
Pharmacogenomics
Personalized Medicine moves into the clinic, Ralph snydermanDisease is a stage in a dynamic process, not a point in time"Personalized, predictive, prevention"Diseases develop over time as sub clinical disease over timeBaseline risk -> Earliest molecular detection -> earliest clinical detection -> typical current interventionQuantify risk, monitor progression, classify disease
Personalized Medicine moves into the clinic, Ralph snydermanDisease is a stage in a dynamic process, not a point in time"Personalized, predictive, prevention"Diseases develop over time as sub clinical disease over timeBaseline risk -> Earliest molecular detection -> earliest clinical detection -> typical current interventionQuantify risk, monitor progression, classify disease