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The Forum: Expansion and Growth

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Cells dividing: illustration by Shan Pillay (always credit)

14/11/2015 GMT

Expansion and Growth

BBC World Service - The Forum, Expansion and Growth

Exploring ideas about expansion and growth

The importance of expansion and growth; exploring space, human cells and China. With Carlos Frenk, Robert Lanza and Jeanne-Marie Gescher.

How expansion and growth affects us in geopolitics, using China as an example, in space, as we increasingly understand how the universe is expanding and in our own bodies, as we discover more about how our cells replicate and change and how we can manufacture them for ourselves. Rajan Datar is joined by Professor Carlos Frenk from Durham University in the UK, a World renowned computational cosmologist who shares his thinking on the latest research about the infinite expansion of the universe. By Jeanne- Marie Gescher, an expert on China, who explores why she thinks the West’s focus on the economy is missing the point. China is indeed embarked on some ambitious economic reform - but it is underpinned by something even more ambitious: that the state will be able to choreograph the market. The top-down state is at the heart of everything, as it has been for thousands of years.  And by Dr Robert Lanza, the  Chief Scientific Officer at Ocata Therapeutics in the USA and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Robert’s current research focuses on stem cells and regenerative medicine and their potential to provide therapies for some of the world’s most deadly and debilitating conditions.

Photo: an artist's impression of cells expanding (illustration by Shan Pillay)

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