Charlie Rose show, midnight Jan 9th/10th, featured three conversations about genetics and diseases, especially cancer. Charlie talked with two Nobel prize winners, DNA co-discoverer James Watson, of Cold Spring Harbor, and cell biologist Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University. He also talked with Eric Lander, a leader of the international Human Genome Project, and finally with Craig Venter, President of The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) , a not-for-profit research institute dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics.

This show may be repeated on your local PBS station in daytime January 10th. Check the PBS website for your area or Charlie Rose’s website, http://www.charlierose.com. Times for his broadcasts are posted top right below a link to the first episode in this science series. Look for video of this show to be posted there shortly.