NOVA - Cracking the Code of Life
by Betsey Arledge, Elizabeth Arledge
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Actor: Robert KrulwichDirector: Betsey Arledge, Elizabeth Arledge
Brand: Wgbh Wholesale
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
DVD Reviews of NOVA - Cracking the Code of Life
DVD Review: Decoding blueprint of human life ?
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't studied biology since school days and borrowed this from local library ..
Decoding the instruction in the genes which contains maze of dense chemical molecules is a challenging exercise.We are told about the giagantic task involved in decoding the billion of molecule sequences, and the probability of it in helping find solution for all possible disease.
The DVD also highlights public/corporate reasearch ,business issues, patents by drug company hungry for profit , ethics, custom made baby, possiblity of cures by protein and its three dimensional challenges, Gene chip for early prediction of disease etc.
I felt the discussion about Celera genome buisness was too long. I was interested in the technical/biochemical? process involoved in decoding such minute instruction from a human cell, that's missing.
I would also like to suggest "Nova: Ghosts of genes" on related topic which discusses decactivation of these DNA sequence, even if they are correct (epigenetics).
Description of NOVA - Cracking the Code of Life
Does it amaze you that yeast is your very close relative? That you possess roughly the same number of genes as a mouse? That you are 99.9% genetically identical to every other human? ABC Nightline correspondent Robert Krulwich lends a lighthearted touch to genetic science in this provocative two-hour NOVA special that takes you inside the amazing, complex and contentious race to decode the human genome.The Human Genome Project was born in 1990, when an international consortium of labs set out to sequence all 3 billion letters of our DNA, predicting they?d finish by 2005. Halfway through their schedule, controversial scientist and entrepreneur J. Craig Venter threw the genome world into turmoil, when he announced his for-profit company Celera could finish the job in just two years. Francis Collins, leader of the publicly-funded effort, and MIT?s Eric Lander were among the scientists who answered Venter?s challenge. The result made history and laid the foundation for a remarkable future.
Armed with this powerful information, medical pioneers are in the midst of astonishing breakthroughs that will change medicine as we know it. Will you get cancer, arthritis, or Alzheimer?s? The answer lies in your genetic code?but the question is: Do you want to know? And will these new discoveries eventually lead to cures?
On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
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