here identification of genetic causes of non-carrying of pregnancy most of the genetic passports wereen with precisely this problem genetic analysis also allows you to determine individual sensitivity to drugs tested and athletes to identify genetic features favorable and unfavorable for sports genetic testing improves sports selection and optimize training what a genetic passport is, and what it will give to its owner. we asked head of the republican center for genomic biotechnologies of the institute, genetics and sociology of the national academy of sciences, irma borisovna massa. this is a document that provides data on some genetic characteristics of a person, a genetic passport, it can be different, it can be dedicated to just as much sports abilities. it will be an athlete or a person's medical characteristics or some kind of passport, health, more general. and here, well, here you can see here, the most different. by the way, here's the explanation miscarriage. this is our most demanding service, for which most of our clients come to us. but the fact is that, unfortunately, ab

that means 50% is not genetic.ry different from the type of environment that the environmentalist from freud onwards assumed was important. they assumed the environment where these systematic effects like mothers treating you badly as an infant, for example, but we now know that cannot be important because kids growing up in the same family who are not genetically related, adopted siblings, we call them, a third of adoptive families adopt a second child who isn't related to that child, they are not similar, even though they grew up in the same family. like, for body weight, the correlation in body weight between two kids growing up in the same family who are not genetically related is zero. and yet, those adopted kids, if you look at their correlation with their birth parents who gave them up for adoption at birth, is just as great as the correlation in weight between parents who rear their own kids. so all the data together, really,... but don't you go to an extreme and you basically say to me, as a parent, you're

most important to understand about genetic engineering is that. it is really attempt to say listen no matter how unsustainable our technologies we're not going to change the technology to fit the natural living systems we're going to change living systems so they fit the technology we all know how horrible factory farming is and one of the problems they have with egg laying chickens with hands is they have a mothering instinct they want to brute and here you see one of the brain experiments genetically engineer. chickens to take out the mothering instinct from these growing chicken so they won't broome or they won't have the mothering instinct any more so they'll fit the factory farm system this is one of the came nearer as they're working with the take away the mothering instinct so we don't change our factory farm system we actually take the mothering instinct out of animals so that they will fit the technology. in the mid eighty's once again a new supposedly golden age dawn for scientists genetic technology appear to be the key to subordinate i

genetically engineer crops can out cross and that their. contam their natural varieties might be contaminated and that they'll lose control over those. ok that's a major as it is and it's unfortunately one that's really not well founded and it's . the out crossing the. negligible paula only drift so far of all the claims made by backers of biotechnology the absence of pollen drift is the most specious and demonstrably false pollen bearing bees will travel several miles wind carries pollen hundreds of miles and humans can inadvertently transfer genetically modified pollen across oceans the theft and use of genetic seeds is not uncommon across national boundaries and genes are known to move between species on bacterial and viral vectors one need only watch wind sandia crest above albuquerque new mexico to imagine how far pollen can travel and surmise the vehicle which the planes grasses flowers and trees used to cross the american continent the biotech industry claims the chances of genetic drift at a distance of a few meters drops below one

the genetic engineering of trees is following on the tradition of genetically engineering crops and many of the same traits that are being engineered and the trees are things that have been done in crops since about the eighty's. and so, yeah, it's, it's all, it's all done in a lab and it involves various techniques for inserting. in the case of the american chestnut, inserting jeans from a completely unrelated speech, sees a grass barley into into the genetically engineered, excuse me, into the america, chose not to create that genetically engineered americans just not so very, very process of genetic modification is very disruptive to the genome, so they're going in there and they're using either a bacterium in this case, or in some cases literally did a coded little bullet. so if they fire into the cell, and they hope that it land somewhere useful in the, in the genome on the, in the, excuse me, i'm one of the chromosomes so that they can then have a product that can be tested out, but can be replicated that could be eventually put out into the field. so in the case of the g, just not

live genetic engineering. (eerie staccato music) (dramatic electronic music) (prosthetic clicking) (water speckles) (robotic arm whirring) (electronic tone beeping) my name is kondwani phiri. i'm a genetic researcher. you could say, it's in my blood. from an early age of about eight or nine or so, i had just a natural curiosity for the natural world. cancer runs in my family. in fact, i lost my aunt to breast cancer. and that peaked my interests in genetics. i'm fascinated by how the genes we inherit shape our biological destiny, including our health. i believe the key to treatments and cures for diseases like these, lies in explicit efforts to engineer human genes. but can we fix not only what's broken but also enhance our genetic codes and improve on mother nature? some day, will humans direct their own evolution and should we? (dramatic staccato music) i'm starting my journey in washington dc to visit a family who's grappling with the difficulties caused by genetic disease. hello. hi, annabel. - [nina] can

diets taking genetically more thereby but there's. the all of these experiments. in compact is with. genetically modified potatoes that you get to pick up and the difference is we already investigated these. growth development immunity and they were supposed to have been touched. but it's the pace of change that's wiring up the scientists as well they say g.m. food is being rushed on to the market now and on time without adequate safety tests that we have a lot of want to experiment. sixty thousand pages of internal documents and in these internal documents it was very clear that the scientists inside the agency said we need to test these foods for toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination page after page of study they said we need. none of this was done. today around a third of the soil from the u.s. is genetically altered and when it gets to the factory it's mixed together with ordinary soil and you never know which is which. in precautionary science of genetic engineering it means one question means one career yo

of the genetics of red, but diseases and genetics of patients, so, of course, all cases are difficultconsistent with traditional treatment regimens. they just lie in the field of genetic coding, oncology, in general, or the treatment of any disease is impossible without a preliminary genetic academy, but in some cases, of course, we cannot use such methods for everyone today . enters force or clinical experience intuition? oh mom glasses thrill, kind. yes, there are many confectioners, many teams, and our tanya took second place and was, one might say, one gram of chocolate from the first. and this is the smell from which you just love, your close friends tell you. oh what a sweet woman, delicious they say. belarus with svetlana borovskoy on our tv channel how interesting to spend the weekend weekends can go in for sports, put things in order at home, lie on the sofa, or you can explore our beautiful belarus every week, we lay new routes in the corners of our country, however, centuries-old trees remained not only in helmets. they can be found even today, this particular oak is alread

it's a genetic risk he was born with. while she was in hospital she warned my sister and me that we might get it too and could very might be genetic and he didn't gain legal. like his mother white or studied medicine but he didn't remember her warning until some of his own patients who had the disease reminded him. quite a began to go for regular checkups and for many years everything was fine when examining doctors found no sign of a disease he felt relieved and assumed he didn't have any unusual genetic risk but then he was diagnosed with colon cancer. when i was forty three i had a colonoscopy and they found i had cancer of the cold on them. they were able to remove it surgically so i didn't need came a therapy kind of humor to. at that point the whiter decided he wanted to know whether his disease had a genetic component. he wondered if he might have passed the risk on to his own four children. the doctor turned patient went to munich center of medical genetics he wanted to know if he carried a genetic variation assoc

i'm editing this new type of genetic engineering. the 1st is genetics. this is krista lab. it counts out the unwanted part of the gina. but unlike hair, this pot does not grow back. it's gone forever edition, it's good. yeah. okay. and no one knows what last and consequences this could have for the plant that is in the 2nd technique is gene silencing. with this, there is no cutting garage about to get rid of the problematic part, whether you use something artificial to conceal at equal now, and it not only conceals gene silencing causes permanent changes in the genetic material of the plant by means of muted genesis. as an implant in classical genetic engineering, we speak of trans genesis here a gene foreign to the species is transplanted into the genome of a host organism like a plant or an animal. so that develops characteristics. but it did not originally have yep. mm mender dot by assumption, that then read the conversion, lay with it. yes, all she for, i didn't, the new methods modify the genetic material of the plant without transplanting genes. does william this goo

if you just use genetics, it's not going to work.r every answer, at least dr yiannis later confirmed that i'm free to drink coffee whilst i mull over my need for any diet change or not. i tell you, she'd never have given it up anyway. now, back at decode genetics in iceland, founder kari stefansson has been looking at a similar and possibly controversial topic — how our genes shape our bodies, our minds and our personalities. i can tell you how we can use genetics to explore in a way the nature of man. his most recent scientific paper has been looking at how that relates to one of the developed world's biggest health problems. if there is one condition that predisposes to more diseases than anything else, it is obesity. obesity predisposes to heart failure, to liver diseases, to osteoarthritis, to type ii diabetes — it predisposes to an incredible number of all cancer diseases. now, some people are genetically predisposed to become obese. their genetic make—up means that they're just more likely to overeat. not all of these people do

the genetic engineering of trees is following on the tradition of genetically engineering crops and many of the same traits that are being engineered and the trees are things that have been done in crops since about the eighty's. and so, yeah, it's, it's all, it's all done in a lab and it involves various techniques for inserting. in the case of the american chestnut, inserting jeans from a completely unrelated speech, sees a grass barley into into the genetically engineered, excuse me, into the america, chose not to create that genetically engineered americans just not so very, very process of genetic modification is very disruptive to the genome, so they're going in there and they're using either a bacterium in this case, or in some cases literally did a coded little bullet. so if they fire into the cell, and they hope that it land somewhere useful in the, in the genome on the, in the, excuse me, i'm one of the chromosomes so that they can then have a product that can be tested out, but can be replicated that could be eventually put out into the field. so in the case of the gene, just

and i was taking that out on the genetics counselor. i almost started to shout and then i was very quiet the rest of the session. my daughter is fine. [laughter] >> but it is a burden so if you talked about the possibility can also have a weight. >> i think a long time heredity has a lightness and a darkness to it so the title of the book tries to speak how we look at children and what we find delightful and then where that came from. so there can be that anxiety maybe you are are bringing a legacy you may not even know about. so to preface in 2000 when my wife was pregnant the technology for the sequence of genes is so primitive compared to now. there is no way they could know anything except a few genes. but now it is totally changed. >> we will dig further into the concept of heredity. we talk about it often but yet it is also vague that you can refer to a lot of different things we believe we inherit. so can you talk about this concept of heredity and where did it come from? how should we think about it today? >> the word heredity i

which is one of the easiest to genetically engineer and the point of the whole genetic modification experiment was to protect the potato against atheists one of the major pests it scotland of they attacked their the potato they grieve parts of the potato and we observed that that particular elected which we used which we take to crop. the snowdrop bulbs did to protect the snowdrop. against or sorts of pests attacks and we had hoped that if we had to take the that particular gene and transferred it needed it into the potatoes that would also be protecting the potato against insect attacks which in fact it did. after the end it was were killed at dissected we found out that it compared it with the genetically modified potatoes their internal organs developed differently some of the hole gets such just for example the got increased in size. even do it. fast or some of the other issues for example or the kid is not developing as well as the troughs and the conclusions were this is if. they found those data surtees six thirty six very significant differences between the g.m. . g.m. at. p

genetic.part that is genetic, it doesn't mean you can't do anything about your behaviour. it's just these are genetic nudges. you know, they push you. if you have met kids who are really good at maths, they make their world maths. theyjoke about maths, they talk maths, they think maths, so they create an environment that is kind of in line with their genetic tendencies. it is not this deterministic hardwired thing. and the best example in my book is i actually create what we call polygenic scores. so based on my dna, i'm able to put thousands of these dna differences together to predict weight. so we can predict about 10% of the differences in weight and, when i do that for me, you can see that i'm on the portly side and i am at the 70th percentile in actual weight but my genetics score is at the 94th percentile. does that, you know, people say, "oh, that means you just don't to give up, you're a genetic fatty, you can't do anything about it". but to the contrary, you know, i find it very moti

each item would be stamped with words such as "genetically engineered," or "partially produced with genetic engineering," or "may be partial produce which amendewith genetic engineering." if californians vote yes on proposition 37, the state will become the first in the country to require such a labeling system, possibly affecting industry labeling practices across the nation. numerous items are already sold in grocery stores containing genetically modified corn and soy, but companies are not required to inform consumers. advocates of prop 37 say consumers have a right to know what they're putting into their bodies. >> we all have the right to know what is in our food. that is why so many consumers say yes to proposition 37. it gives us the right to know if there are genetically engineered ingredients in our food, with clear information on package labels. that is the very same rights consumers in nearly 50 other countries already enjoy. yes on 37. we have the right to know what is in our favor. >> that that was free -- was released by "yes on 37 california right to know campaign." upon it s

the genetics of the red is very important, but the diseases and the genetics of the patients, so, ofrse, all cases. difficult, yielding to the traditional treatment regimen, they just lie in the field of genetic coding in oncology, in general, or the treatment of any of the diseases is impossible without a preliminary genetic academy, but having increased, of course, we have such methods for everyone today we can’t instill this strength, clinical experience and intuition for victory in sports arenas, not only strength, endurance and speed are needed, but intelligence, like muscles, needs to be constantly trained. how well belarusian athletes understand sports. rifle what we play i choose the game dyna of ours. what is the name of the team of the support group and the hockey club dinamo minsk andrey pervyy caught, watch the intellectually entertaining show heading on belarus 24 tv channel belonging to the varta people strive relatives and tradition, we set off on an expedition along the patches of our ukraine to get to the place of destination, we tried to drive 33 km and eight at noo

and the carrier of genetic information, the material carrier of genetic information that we pass on toildren and receive from our parents, is a molecule called dna, deoxyribonucleic acid, and on this molecule, as on a material carrier, as on a magnetic tape, it is written that you - this is you, and i am me, and bari is bari , dna molecules are very long in every cell of our body, we have... hundreds of trillions of cells, containing about 2 m, of these double helices of dna, which many probably imagine, imagine small, small cells, each crammed with 2 m of these tiny molecules , that’s the dna that is in our cells, we have it the same in our body, because we received half of our dna from our mother, and half from dads, so all this genetic information that makes you you, and me me, both bari bari, and it is called a gene, because this information can be read, there is a certain procedure, it is called sequencing, or in russian, probably, the definition dna sequences, where we really just read a set of such genetic letters, these are chemical molecules , but for convenience i will call t

this is our genetic portrait of all the texts that i have genetic, i have a genetic intolerance to alcoholrecommendation. and i was asked to uh drink little drink rarely. that is, you are ready. right here under the camera to tell what you have in your genes , and why, uh, look, the genome of each of us is pretty meaningless, if you don’t compare with someone, we have, uh, a genetic portrait that we give to all of our volunteers. and i am in this the case of a volunteer who contains. well, the ability to absorb lactose has something to do with age-related skin aging, because well, light-induced aging is in general, really strongly determined by genes, and bean tolerance is gluten. wait faster than that, he was not so interesting to me. i was looking at important things. and how old are you, in general, if not a secret, i am 55 years old. yeah , but i won’t tell you that it still works with genes. here are some things related to vitamins. well, the origin. we, too do, and origin. now you are ready to tell right under the camera who, well, we have here. the fact is that the quality of the or

i'm a genetic researcher. you could say, it's in my blood. from an early age of about eight or nine or so, i had just a natural curiosity for the natural world. cancer runs in my family. in fact, i lost my aunt to breast cancer. and that peaked my interests in genetics. i'm fascinated by how the genes we inherit shape our biological destiny, including our health. i believe the key to treatments and cures for diseases like these, lies in explicit efforts to engineer human genes. but can we fix not only what's broken but also enhance our genetic codes and improve on mother nature? the unique sequence of these base pairs are instructions for the body to make proteins. the base pairs are like musical notes on a score that tell a musician how to play a song. when all the different sections of the dna are played, the result is a biological symphony. (upbeat orchestral music) but like the musical note played out of key that compromises the entire performance, there is an error in one of annabel's genes. (annabel groans) (tense electronic music) the

she will become the owner of a genetic passport genetic passports for residents of belarus and othere been compiled since 2010 at the republican center for genomic biotechnologies, institutes, genetics and cytology of the national academy of sciences, having learned about the center and its capabilities, elena did not have to wait long and turned out to be here i am interested in preventive medicine and in general, sincerely i believe that it is better hmm to prevent some diseases. as far as possible, than to treat later. that's because in the press. to me it seems that the current medicine. it is very strongly aimed at some symptomatic things, that is, treatment due to what has manifested itself, and to know in advance that one is inclined to something and the way of life is to test with some good habits. well, i think that's the analysis. can i help a lot with this? elena is on the right track at the center, testing for genetic predisposition to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome and many other diseases. i seem to have predisposition, as it seems to

worked without genetics. genes underlie all of these really miraculous advances. >> yes. >> so another example, remember this distinction in breast cancer, guess what those are, genes. estrogen and progesterone. it's a marker for certain kinds of cancer. the people didn't know that we would know how to treat breast-cancer. >> and the physicians have had to learn this very quickly. >> absolutely. they had learned very quickly. >> thank you, what do you make up or how close do you think we are to getting a cure for cancer [inaudible] >> so cure is a complicated wording cancer because it depends on the kind of cancer that were talking about. it has a very rich history detailed in the book. if you ask me what i think, i think they're helpful in some ways and can be hurtful and others print i think they're they're helpful because they refocus our attention at a time when our attention span seems to have degenerated and i think there are issues we should be focused on on how to help ourselves and help the economy a

critically acclaimed books on genetically modified foods including genetic roulette a documented health risks of genetically engineered foods jeffrey joins me now in the studio you're welcome thank you thanks for joining us back in the eighty's when the g m o's were first coming out there there were no laws there were no regulations and monsanto actually went to the i believe it was the bush administration history was the reagan administration ok and so we'd like you to regulate it was this all about what have you see monsanto has not been a very popular company for decades because of continually lying about the toxicity of their products so they figured if the government gave a rubber stamp to it and it looked like it was the government approving it then they were kind of off the hook and in the next decade they got what they wanted a rubber stamp that meant nothing but it gave the illusion that the government was regulating g.m.o. so. how so will the person in charge of policy at the f.d.a. was michael taylor monsanto's former attorney he had been put in that position because the whit

that is a true jewel to my genetic predisposition. -- attribute a bowl to my genetic predisposition. he said after my arrest, this was discovered. i started prescription medication. my behavior change. my behavior changed so much that the death penalty was not warranted because my aggressive behavior was genetic. it is now treated. it is a treatable condition. i am not the worst of the worst kind of criminal offenders. retributive theory it is based on the moral culpability of the offender. if they person has less control are they less morally culpable? is there a current value and executing -- executing them? is a question that is showing up repeatedly in quite a few cases. quite a few were ineffective. the answer seems to be at least from the supreme court that failing to investigate in urological basis for a person's behavior does constitute an effective counsel. no investigation for a person's behavior in many cases that constitutes this counsel. not sure if it is this cumulative. they tried to show that the person was -- had some mental health component to their behavior. a comp

we would not be here in cancer today were it not for genetics and genetic engineering in particular. >> thank you. how much promise do you feel are in that area? >> depends on the arena. we are using anti-bodies more and more. genetics was used to figure what an anti-body was. we would not know how the immune system works if it were not for genetics. genes underlie these advances. the most obvious example. remember the breast cancer distinctions? they are genes. estrogen receptor genes. we would not know to treat breast cancer with the concern drugs if we didn't know this. >> host: doctors and physicians had to learn this quickly. >> what do you make or how close are we to getting a cure to cancer and do you thing the efforts like the president's shot and others by silicone valley to get to the cure, how close do you thing we might be? >> cure is a complicated word in cancer. depends on the cancer we are talking about. it has a rich history detailed in another book. [laughter] >> guest: if you ask me about what i think all of these moon shot efforts, i think they are helpful in some

uh, great cool cells, genetics is very important genetics. new diseases and genetics are a-a patients, so, of course, all cases are difficult to amenable to the traditional treatment regimen. they just lie in the field of genetic coding in oncology, in general, the treatment of any disease is impossible without a preliminary genetic academy, but in some cases, of course, we instill such methods in everyone today, studio with our guest it. hello hello egor vladimirovich lemeshko head of the multidisciplinary diagnostic laboratory of the institute of physiology of the national academy of sciences of belarus ph.d. we have just learned what personalized medicine is in general. then. let's ask you. and what is happening in medicine now? what is the name of the one that is still a priority all over the world, including in our state, today's medicine meets the principles of the four paragraphs. yes. this is a forecast. this is a warning. this is exactly the same personalized medicine and partnership, if you analyze each principle, then the forecast,

that we used for genetic engineering get nine hundred ninety five. and this is the particular potato variety which is one of the easiest to genetically engineer and the point of the whole genetic modification experiment was to protect the potato a gate stay feeds one of the major pests it's scotland of they attack their the potato the grief parts of the potato and we observed that that particular lect it which we used which we take to crop. the snowdrop. did to protect the snowdrop bulbs against or sorts of pests attacks and we had hoped that if we had to take the that particular gene and transferred it educate it into the potatoes that would also be protecting the potato against insect attacks which in fact it did. after the animals were killed at dissected we found out that the competitive with the genetically modified potatoes there is eterno or good. developed differently some of the. such just for example a good got it. is even doing that itself was as fast or some of the other issues. or the kid they were don't develop as well as the controls a

the genetic anymore the fate products are. due to have we should not sacrifice the help of the people and even though they byron meant for the sake of short term propping up the corporations the miracle race from switzerland is up against a great deal of opposition and mistrust. you get the feeling you want to help these people but they don't want your help. you know exactly rights does not surprise you. as a citizen of switzerland you must have had plenty of opportunity to recognize how unpopular trends genetic plants are this golden rice is considered a dangerous plans by professional opponents of genetic engineering because it simultaneously shows that the technology is not only being used to benefit monsanto this but to help the poor for the public good and to improve public health is that no one is making any profit from it. the steam in my entire life i've never received a penny for our work the entire humanitarian board has invested its own time but never received any money for it so that means the entire arguments the

these scissors have become one of the most important tools in the world, genetics labs, genetic scissors, work on plants and animals. and even on humans, they're universal. and that's why they have such huge potential the new technology is so powerful that in just the few years, it's become a fundamental technique for geneticists. in modern plant breeding in research and in medicine. but with great power comes great responsibility. should humans intervene in the blueprint of a living being? is it crossing an ethical boundary? in creating new species, many fear that humans are playing god. genetic scissors are already being used in a wide range. good applications, like customized plant breeding. and the development of new drugs, treatments and vaccines. it's created a lot of excitement in medical research, but some people are frightened by the technology. geneticist, professor joachim video quote, says society needs to be aware of the opportunities and dangers, especially when it comes to human applications. p fog isn't mobile fume on this. i question is always about what you use it for l