CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

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CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

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Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego, focuses on a family of cell surface sugars called the sialic acids, and their roles in biology, evolution and disease. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21987]

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

More episodes from "CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)"

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells