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Genetics Unzipped Podcast: Breeding better humans - exposing the dark legacy and troubling present of eugenics

Posted by , on 27 January 2022

New techniques that have been developed in the last five, ten years have relaunched conversations about the same things that the eugenicists were talking about in the late 19th and ...
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: How the zebra got its stripes - when maths and molecules collide

Posted by , on 13 January 2022

Discover the maths behind some of the deepest mysteries of life, from the patterning of stripes on a zebra to the spots on a leopard, and even the bones in ...
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Genetics Unzipped: The natural lottery - How our genes shape our lives

Posted by , on 2 December 2021

We explore how genetic variations might affect our chances in life, and what - if anything - we should do with this information.
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Genetics Unzipped: A menagerie of malignancy - Cancer across the animal kingdom

Posted by , on 18 November 2021

We find out how studying tumours across the animal kingdom, from naked mole rats to elephants, can reveal insights into cancer in our own species.
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Hormones: The Inside Story - Season 2

Posted by , on 10 November 2021

Hormones: The Inside Story, the podcast uncovering the science and the stories about hormones and health, is back for a second series.
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Wired for sound - the genetics of music

Posted by , on 4 November 2021

We're getting in harmony with the science of music. Is there a music gene? Does musical talent really run in families? And how does the inability to perceive music impact ...
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Rarities and oddities - the strangest genetics stories of 2021

Posted by , on 21 October 2021

We look back on some of the most mind-blowing stories from the world of genetics in 2021, from Borgs to duck-billed platypuses.
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Baby boom - The surprising science of the placenta

Posted by , on 7 October 2021

We explore the science behind one of the most remarkable but often overlooked organs in the mammalian body: the placenta.
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Reading the book of life - A brief history of DNA sequencing

Posted by , on 23 September 2021

We take a look at how we learned to read the book of life, from the earliest days of DNA sequencing to the very latest futuristic technologies.
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‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’

Posted by , on 20 September 2021

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology compiled and edited by Michael D Greenfield, Henkjan Honing, Sonja ...
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