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Unnatural Selection (TV Series)
''Unnatural Selection'' (or stylized as, ''"unnatural selection"'') is a 2019 United States of America, American web documentary Web series, series in 4 episodes. It is presents an overview of genetic engineering and particularly, the CRISPR gene editing, DNA-editing technology of CRISPR, from the perspective of scientists, corporations and Do-it-yourself biology#Genetic engineering, biohackers working from their home. The series was released on the video on demand Netflix in October 18, 2019. Episodes ''Unnatural Selection'' is a documentary series. Season 1 The first season consists of 4 episodes. It became available for streaming on October 18, 2019. Participants The documentary TV series includes the following notable participants (alphabetized by last name): * Andrea Crisanti (scientist), Andrea Crisanti – Italian microbiologist * Nelson Dellis – American memory athlete * Jennifer Doudna – American biochemist and Nobel laureate for CRISPR * Victor Dzau – President, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Dellis
Nelson Charles Dellis (born February 4, 1984) is an American Memory sport, memory athlete and consultant. He is a five-time USA Memory Championship, USA Memory Champion, holding the record for most wins of the national memory champion title. He is also one of the co-founders of Memory League (formerly, Extreme Memory Tournament). Nelson also runs ''Climb 4 Memory'' - a nonprofit which "aims to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer's disease research through mountain climbs around the world." Personal life Dellis was born in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, UK, to a Belgium, Belgian mother and a French father, and grew up in England, France, and the United States. He attended high school at Gulliver Schools, Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, Florida. After graduation, he went on to attend the University of Miami, where he graduated with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics. He then earned a master's degree in computer science, also from the University of Miami, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah Zayner
Jo Zayner (formerly Josiah Zayner; born February 8, 1981) is a biohacker, artist, and scientist best known for their self-experimentation and work making hands-on genetic engineering accessible to a lay audience, including CRISPR. Education At the age of 19, Zayner worked at Motorola as a programmer. They have a BA in plant biology from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D in biophysics (2013) from the University of Chicago. Before receiving their Ph.D, Zayner earned a MSc in cell and molecular biology from Appalachian State University. Career Zayner spent two years as a researcher at the Mountain View, California's NASA Ames Space Synthetic Biology Research Center, where they worked on Martian colony habitat design. While at the agency, Zayner also analyzed speech patterns in online chat, Twitter, and books, and found that language on Twitter and online chat is closer to how people talk than to how they write. Zayner found NASA's scientific work less innovative th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Crisanti (scientist)
Andrea Crisanti (born 14 September 1954) is an Italian full professor of microbiology at the University of Padua and politician. He previously was professor of Molecular Parasitology at Imperial College London. He is best known for the development of genetically manipulated mosquitoes with the objective to interfere with either their reproductive rate or the capability to transmit diseases such as malaria. Biography Crisanti earned his Master of Medicine and Surgery degree in Italy at Sapienza University of Rome. Crisanti served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg. In 1994, Crisanti became a lecturer at Imperial College, before being appointed Professor in 2000. He is also the director of the Centre of Functional Genomics at the University of Perugia. He is an author of over 100 scientific publications in leading scientific journals, including ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Traywick
Aaron James Traywick (December 19, 1989 – April 29, 2018) was an American businessman and life extension activist in the transhumanism and biohacking communities. He sought to develop gene therapies to make inexpensive treatments available for incurable conditions such as AIDS and the herpes simplex virus. His lack of any medical training and his unconventional methods—such as broadcasting an associate injecting himself with an "untested experimental gene therapy", then later doing the same to himself in an onstage public demonstration—drew widespread criticism. Education Aaron Traywick was a resident of Elmore, Alabama, and a graduate of Stanhope Elmore High School. He graduated from the University of Montevallo in Alabama with a degree in interdisciplinary studies; he held no background in the sciences or formal training in clinical medicine. Career From January 2016 to his termination in July 2016, he worked to advocate investment in radical approaches towards anti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Russell (ecologist)
James Charles Russell is a New Zealand conservation biologist and professor at the University of Auckland. Russell is most widely known for his research on Norway rats (''Rattus norvegicus'') in New Zealand. One of the rats he studied swam over 400 metres between two Hauraki Gulf islands, breaking the swimming distance record for rats. The intentions of the rat are believed to have been amorous. The rat, known as Razza, was featured in '' Nature (journal), Nature'', and later in a children's book by Witi Ihimaera. Russell gained a PhD on the genetics and invasion ecology of rats, from the University of Auckland. He writes a blog for National Geographic on island conservation. Awards and honours In 2012, Russell was awarded the New Zealand Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize, worth NZ$200,000, for his work using DNA fingerprinting of rats and statistical modelling to address conservation problems. In 2014, Russell was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Kahn
Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film *Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States *Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia *Jeffrey's sketch, a sketch on American TV show ''Saturday Night Live'' *''Nurse Jeffrey'', a spin-off miniseries from the American medical drama series ''House, MD'' *Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa People with the surname * Alexander Jeffrey (1806–1874), Scottish solicitor and historian *Charles Jeffrey (footballer) (died 1915), Scottish footballer * E. C. Jeffrey (1866–1952), Canadian-American botanist *Grant Jeffrey (1948–2012), Canadian writer *Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934), American activist, suffragist and community organizer *Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002), American philosopher, logician, and probab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (born December 12, 1960, in Hellín, Albacete) is a Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist. He is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California since 1993. Education Izpisua graduated from the University of Valencia, Spain with a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy and Science. He then earned a master's degree in Pharmacology from the same university before moving on to complete his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of Bologna, Italy and the University of Valencia, Spain. He followed that with a stage as a postdoctoral fellow in different institutions, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in Heidelberg, Germany and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA prior to moving to the Salk Institute in 1993. Career In 2004, he helped to establish the Center for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona and was its Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spark Therapeutics
Spark Therapeutics, Inc. is a developer of gene therapy treatments, which treat debilitating genetic diseases. It is a subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche. History The company was founded in 2013 by Katherine A. High, Jeffrey Marrazzo, and Steven Altschuler in an effort to commercially develop treatments against haemophilia that High was working on at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In January 2015, the company became a public company, trading under the ticker $ONCE via a $161 million initial public offering led by Chief Legal Officer Joseph La Barge. In December 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved LUXTURNATM (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl) for the treatment of patients with viable retinal cells and confirmed biallelic RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy, a genetic blinding condition caused by mutations in the RPE65 gene. The company is currently developing several gene therapies to target a suite of diseases, including Haemophilia A and B, and several cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine A
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin M
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veritas Genetics
Veritas Genetics is a personal genomics startup based in Danvers, Massachusetts. According to the company's press release, it was among the first companies to offer whole genome sequencing and interpretation for under $1,000. It was co-founded in 2014 by George M. Church, Mirza Cifric, Preston Estep, and Jonathan Zhao. In 2018, the company launched its flagship product, myGenome, with the stated goal of providing consumers with information about their inherited genetic risk including cancer, cardiovascular and carrier status, reaction to certain medications (pharmacogenomics) and more, all based on whole-genome sequencing Whole genome sequencing (WGS), also known as full genome sequencing, complete genome sequencing, or entire genome sequencing, is the process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism's genome at a ... results. The company further reduced to cost of whole genome sequencing to only $199 per order during a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
