Rxs Get Personal

Published: Aug. 9, 2010, 3 a.m.

b"Medicine\\u2019s back.. and this time it\\u2019s personal. Get ready to have your genome read\\u2026 your brain scanned\\u2026 and undergo a chemical analysis so detailed, it\\u2019ll reveal the Twinkie you had for lunch. Everyone\\u2019s different, and reading those differences at the level of the gene may provide a more accurate profile of health and how to treat disease. But are you ready to know what\\u2019s wrong with you?\\nDiscover the future of personalized medicine with biologist Craig Venter, as well as a man who turned his body over to the new science. Learn what his tests revealed.\\nPlus, why stem cell research really is a horse race. And, why getting sick is sometimes the best thing.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nCraig Venter - Genome scientist\\n\\n\\nFrank McCormick - Director of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco\\n\\n\\nDavid Ewing Duncan - Journalist and author of Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World\\n\\n\\n\\nSharon Moalem - Neurogeneticist and Evolutionary Biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and author of Survival of the Sickest\\n\\n\\n\\nSean Owens - Director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the University of California, Davis\\n\\n\\nJulie Burges - Animal Health Technician, Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, University of California, Davis\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"