Topic: Biotech

Dr. Moira Gunn discusses food safety with Mike Doyle, Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. They dive into the challenge, prefaced by the statistic that 15% of our food is imported from other countries.

Dr. Moria Gunn talks with Dr. Tom Shepard, CEO of Scottish firm, CXR Biosciences, about their work adding select genetic switches to lab mice.

Dr. Moria Gunn learns about the uses for chemical genomics from Dr. Greg Roth, Director of Medicinal Chemistry from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. She then sits down with GeoVax Labs Senior VP, Dr. Harriet Robinson, where they study HIV and AIDS vaccines.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about Australia's unlikely contribution to the science community and it's development of biofuels with Chief Scientist, Dr. Mary O'Kane.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Executive Vice President, Thomas Nagy about the positive environmental impacts which occur when manufactures choose to engineer more natural products.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Genencor CEO, Tjerk De Ruiter, to talk about everything sustainable, from tires to toys.

Dr. Moira Gunn learns about adult stem cells from Aldagen CSO,Andrew Balber and talks with QRX Pharma CEO, John Holaday about new uses for existing and proven drugs.

Dr.Moira Gunn and BioTech contributor, David Duncan, sit down with Burrill & Co CEO, Steve Burrill to recap the major events to effect the Bio Technology Industry during 2009.

Dr. Moira Gunn sits down to talk science with writer, James Schwartz about his new book,In Pursuit of the Game:From Darwin to DNA,digging into the world of science and the personalities behind it. From Darwin's belief in pangenesis to explain the inheritance of physical variations to Hermann Muller's Nobel Prize winning work on X-rays and genetic mutation.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Jeremy Abbate and his partner, Yali Friedman about a new report published in Scientific American Worldview on the creation of the worlds first environmentally sustainable plastic.