Expansion and Growth
The importance of expansion and growth; exploring space, human cells and China. With Carlos Frenk, Robert Lanza and Jeanne-Marie Gescher.
How expansion and growth affects us in geopolitics, using China as an example, in space, as we increasingly understand how the universe is expanding and in our own bodies, as we discover more about how our cells replicate and change and how we can manufacture them for ourselves. Rajan Datar is joined by Professor Carlos Frenk from Durham University in the UK, a World renowned computational cosmologist who shares his thinking on the latest research about the infinite expansion of the universe. By Jeanne- Marie Gescher, an expert on China, who explores why she thinks the West鈥檚 focus on the economy is missing the point. China is indeed embarked on some ambitious economic reform - but it is underpinned by something even more ambitious: that the state will be able to choreograph the market. The top-down state is at the heart of everything, as it has been for thousands of years. And by Dr Robert Lanza, the Chief Scientific Officer at Ocata Therapeutics in the USA and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Robert鈥檚 current research focuses on stem cells and regenerative medicine and their potential to provide therapies for some of the world鈥檚 most deadly and debilitating conditions.
Photo: an artist's impression of cells expanding (illustration by Shan Pillay)
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Carlos Frenk
Professor Carlos S. Frenk is Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University鈥檚 world-renowned theoretical cosmology research group. Along with collaborators from all over the world, he builds model universes in state-of-the-art supercomputers, trying to understand how the structures in our Universe evolved from simple beginnings to the complex structures composed of stars and galaxies that we see today.
Robert Lanza
He was part of the team that cloned the world鈥檚 first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning).
Jeanne-Marie Gescher
Jeanne-Marie Gescher has advised business and government on
China for over a quarter of a century.
Her new book, All Under Heaven: China's Dreams of Order,
examines China and its history.
Founder of one of the earliest private advisory firms in China,
she has also observed and advised policy institutions on the social, human and
environmental changes that have taken place and on their implications, for
China and the wider world.
Jeanne-Marie has been honorary legal advisor to successive
British ambassadors to the PRC from 1989 to 2015; she is a twice-elected former
chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China. In 2001, she was awarded an
OBE for her China work. She is a Leaders Quest Ambassador.
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- Mon 16 Nov 2015 02:06GMT91热爆 World Service except Americas and the Caribbean & Australasia
- Mon 16 Nov 2015 05:06GMT91热爆 World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Tue 17 Nov 2015 09:06GMT91热爆 World Service
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- Tue 17 Nov 2015 23:06GMT91热爆 World Service
- Wed 18 Nov 2015 02:06GMT91热爆 World Service Australasia
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