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Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Ronald Collman, professor of medicine in microbiology, virus/cell/molecular core director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylvania.

It looks like the summer of 2008 will be an amazing summer for science. The Phoenix Mars Mission and NASA have successfully landed their probe on the Martian arctic, in search for the conditions that can sustain life (FiB24), the personal genome project, run by Dr. George Church, is braving us forward into a new era human genomics (FiB29), and lastly, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is getting readied to explore the origins of the Big Bang, and may just unravel the ultimate theory of everything (FiB31).

Nevertheless, a large cloud hangs over humanity, which has taken over 25 million lives (warning: hardcore biotech discussion). Dr. Ronald Collman describes the molecular structure, pathology, and with great insight, the incredible discoveries that might just help us conquer HIV.

Software pick: Papers

Audible pick: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. For your free audio book visit Audible.com/biotech.

Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Blog thanks to the kind folks at PodsinPrint

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Also thanks to Will Hall for the great theme.