Changed the course of world war ii. She will bespeaking tonight about her new book , the great secret, the classified world war ii that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you and i want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas, its virtually but im here at my desk. Myfirst zoom presentation so bear with me everyone. Im thinking right now i should have a little bit of wine but anyway here we go. Lets start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. Men occasionally stumble across it to most of them themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stuart Francis alexander, our hero is not long off. In fact, you refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even though churchill warned him to. He stayed and investigated and as a result he recognized a never before seen symptoms of dying sailors that might have lifesaving implications for others inthe future. This is the story of one intrep
Of russians, sounds downright scary, i read comments about this project, there were the craziest versions including that the genomes of russian people will be sold like oil, it was the most moderate version, and the worst thing sounded like they wanted to take away their genomes from the russians and deprive us of dna, in order to reassure our most active fellow citizens, lets remind you what a genome is, what does it mean . And the carrier of Genetic Information, the material carrier of Genetic Information that we pass on to our children 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
Gunfire at a reno hospital complex. The crisis over, the questions just beginning. Later some answers to the question so many people have about the report that take a multivitamin and other supplements not only wont help you but could actually even hurt you. Well talk about that. We begin with the breaking news. Deadliest single incident for americans in afghanistan since the summer is of last year. A blackhawk helicopter down. 6 u. S. Members, natoled Security Assistance force are dead. It happened today in southern afghanistan, even though we dont yet have a full picture of what happened exactly, its beginning to come into focus. Barbara starr is working her sources at the pentagon joins us now. What are you learning, barbara . Reporter good evening, anderson. At this hour military investigators are urgently trying to figure out what did happen here. The reports are that the helicopter, the blackhawk, went down due to mechanical failure. But once it hit the ground, were any of those