Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea



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http://www.ted.com Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the oceans biodiversity.
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I love these talks. ... ( 1 year ago by benjis007)
I love these talks. I wish they were longer though. A full lecture. Thanks.
Very interesting ... ( 1 year ago by Mjhavok)
Very interesting stuff. I love genes, genetics and genomics :-D.
Bioethics has feck ... ( 1 year ago by Mjhavok)
Bioethics has feck all to do with religion.
Love this video. ( 1 year ago by Gnophilist)
Love this video.
Amazing!!! ( 1 year ago by arabonormanno)
Amazing!!!
I'd feel more ... ( 1 year ago by petefc)
I'd feel more optimistic if Homeland Security wasn't one of the 'advisory bodies'.
Can people who try to justify warrantless search and seizure be trusted with genome synthesis?
i'll second that. ... ( 1 year ago by sheepwshotguns)
i'll second that. religion has driven us for long enough, time for a new navigator; science.
How about reason ... ( 1 year ago by Mjhavok)
How about reason and rationality?
When you are ... ( 1 year ago by Mjhavok)
When you are talking about synthetic cells and the possible creation of designer organisms of course they are gonna be in on it.
I imagine it will ... ( 1 year ago by petefc)
I imagine it will go something like this: "EXcuse me sir, you have a genetic disposition to terrorism, please put these cuffs and this hood and diaper on - have a nice rendition flight"
If it turns out they screwed up on the ID they could fit you with 'the terror gene' with a retrovirus.
God Help America!
I'm a religious ... ( 1 year ago by atoznumbers0to9)
I'm a religious person but I'm all for science and reason and rationality ruling the day, definitely. But (some) Christians are going to force their geo-paternal noses into this and tell us all what we have to do or don't do, I guarantee you, and history shows us Christians will slaughter people to enforce their private codes (not that they are alone in this).
This is really ... ( 1 year ago by marianopicco)
This is really interesting. Luckily I have the education needed to understand most of it and its things like these that give me hope for the future. Just imagine a filtering machine made of these biological substances that can filter CO2 to produce oxygen or some other chemicals... Certainly would help.
Hahahaha! that's ... ( 1 year ago by nanfesii)
Hahahaha! that's how you convince ppl to keep founding the study :) keep it up XD i liked it :)
I love these talks ... ( 1 year ago by GnosisMan50)
I love these talks too..the music at the end is awesome too!
Can any xtians ... ( 1 year ago by Celtic1433)
Can any xtians please tell us where this sort of stuff is in the bible?
You know, useful stuff that has real value?
No?
Love.
Previous comment ... ( 1 year ago by Celtic1433)
Previous comment rant over...
Thank you again for such a fantastic lecture.
Transport is needed which eventually needs oil. Burning oil is found to be bad but because of the cheap, abundant energy, we are able to pool immense amounts of brainpower. We then discover how to biologically manufacture organisms to undo the damage caused whilst we were growing up.
Brilliant.
Love.
best idea since ... ( 1 year ago by abram730)
best idea since beer... hehe also a microbial gift :) mmmmm beer.
I stand in AWE. ... ( 11 months ago by DONTMAKEMELAUGH)
I stand in AWE. Thank you for all that you do to understand this, genomes, microcrobes .... micro-organisms .... small parts of dna .... I bow 2 U xxxx
At 15.55 ".. ... ( 11 months ago by 5micky2)
At 15.55 "..religious leaders were using their scriptures as lawbooks and couldn't find anything in them prohibiting making life.." Pretty well proves the Bible is an ancient work of fiction. The idea we could create life would not have been conceivable to ancient humans. But an all-powerful god would ban it at the start.
When one considers ... ( 8 months ago by skahhhel)
When one considers the Judeo Christian definition of God as being an entity that is everywhere and knows everything, that God must be in the genomes, in us, in what we have not defined etc etc etc. So that that God is also in the life making forces, that supposedly happenned on whatever day the Bible says it was supposed to have started possibly....but that creation has actually never ended, or at least does not appear to have ended!
I'm confused as to ... ( 8 months ago by jettskys)
I'm confused as to what you're saying. It seems to be that as a Christain you're actually taking the blindfold off and coming to some kind of realization, yet at the same time you still stand for it and support that history.
What Craig Venter ... ( 8 months ago by xerophytes)
What Craig Venter did (or doing) is not really creating new species or life, IMO. 'God' himself can create something out of nothing but people, like scientists, cannot do that. Certainly what scientists are doing is just using resources and put them together. Technically, it's not a creation.




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