Another Inconvenient Truth (.MP3,12.83 Mb)

On this edition, we speak with Jim Wells, director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center at the Univeristy of California, San Francisco. Wells recently coauthored an editorial for the journal Science about the need for scientists to work with advocacy groups to accelerate public awareness in support of basic research. He points to the success former vice president Al Gore has had in raising awareness around climate change and global warming and sees in that a populist model that could help bring in new support for biomedical research at a critical time of spreading disease and when our genomic understanding remains in its infancy.