did anyone else watch the charlie rose program 2 nocs ago-jan 9th? Dr. Paul Nurse, president of rockefeller Univ (Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology and Medicine--for experiments determining cell cycle regulation--related to kinases) is a co-host with charlie rose in this science series. the second program in the series had Dr. James Watson (of the DNA duo watson/crick) Dr. Eric Lauder, Professor of Biology at MIT and Craig Venter (biologist who founded the Institute for Genomic research sequenced the human genome for several individuals , including himself).
I found very interesting how much the discussions focused upon the importance of environmental infulences --esp. dr. lauder's. Dr. Watson seemed assurred that a fellow colleague has found the answer to alzheimer's, though did not elaborate.
the following is a web site for the first in the series--the site for the 2nd program is not availiable yet....
http://www.charlierose.com/bio.html