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Dr Leroy Hood is a world renowned biotechnologist, geneticist and author. From the future of medicine to the human genome project, Lee tells about his fascinating life and his views for the scientific future.

Full synopsis:

0:00 - Introduction
2:24 - P4 medicine - what it is and how it will play a role in the future
17:10 - Systems Biology - A new approach for biological research
25:15 - Thriving in the future of Biology
30:25 - Noise in biology
37:04 - Neuroplasticity and coronavirus
38:37 - The institute of systems biology
42:34 - Future novels
43:24 - Developing scientific tools - How they has affected Lee and how to go about developing them
01:05:10 - The human genome project 
01:12:24 - Book recommendations and advice



 

4 billion years ago the earth was bombarded with photons, a short while later a Tesla got launched into space. This week I'm speaking to Professor Keith Downing about emergent phenomena; which the above scenario is a prime example of, alongside the formation of a baby from a fertilised egg, economies from individual interactions and for good measure alcohol from respiring yeast! 

Full synopsis:

0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Emergence and emergent systems
13:20 - Evolution and its algorithms
23:40 - Theory of facilitated variation
31:30 - Neural Information vs Synthetic Information 
41:30 - Evolutionary computation vs Neural networks
48:25 - Re-enforcement learning
1:02:15 - Building intelligence - neural net architectures
1:07:00 - Advice and Book recommendations