Making CRISPR Cas9 work in the brain
[3:07] [Video and text source: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience YouTube channel]…
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Michael Shermer: Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
[7:55] Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song “Heaven is a Place on Earth”? It&…
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Gary Marcus: Never too late to learn something new!
[14:40] Gary Marcus is a Cognitive Scientist at NYU and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero. Co-editor …
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Where Are Memories Stored?
[6:27] How does my brain store memories again?? Great question! There are a lot of questions about how memories are stor…
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BJ Casey: The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior
[18:05] Yale University’s BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting …
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Christof Koch: Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
[6:07] If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experie…
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Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’
[5:00] Would you get a brain cell transplant? And just how many cells can you have replaced without becoming a whole new p…
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene – Unlocking the Human Code
[1:22:01] Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are, in the word…
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Jocelyne Bloch: The brain may be able to repair itself – with help
[11:34] Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the bra…
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Using Neurobiology to Overcome Genetic and Environmental Adversity
[20:34] MIT’s Mark Bear presents a fascinating account of how understanding neural plasticity, or the ability …
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