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Posted by katarney on August 15th, 2019
We’re telling tales of sex and death, and exploring the very darkest side of genetics.
Posted by katarney on August 1st, 2019
Take a trip in a genetic time machine, discovering the origins of ancient human populations and exploring the future of personal genome sequencing.
Posted by katarney on July 19th, 2019
We’re exploring the dark heart of the genome, untying nature’s shoelaces, and looking back at the discovery of RNA splicing.
Posted by katarney on July 9th, 2019
In this episode we’re celebrating the Genetics Society’s centenary with past president and Nobel laureate, Sir Paul Nurse.
Posted by katarney on June 20th, 2019
We’re unravelling the story of the double helix, cracking the triplet code, and sketching out a Punnett square.
Posted by katarney on June 11th, 2019
Get lost in the Valley of Hybridisation in the Genetics Society’s medal-winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Posted by katarney on May 23rd, 2019
We take the train with William Bateson, seek the secrets of snapdragons and build an army of MinIONs.
Posted by Jelle van den Ameele on May 10th, 2019
By Ghislain Gillard, Maria J. Gomez Lamarca, Robert Krautz, Rosa Park, David Salvador-Garcia, Yara Sanchez-Corrales and Jelle van den Ameele On the 28th of January, the Cambridge Fly Club held its very first Symposium in the beautiful environment of Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK. This meeting, titled “Past, Present and Future of Drosophila research” was[…]
Posted by katarney on May 9th, 2019
In this episode of Genetics Unzipped we talk to pioneering geneticist George Church about his plans for the ‘Zero Dollar Genome.
Posted by katarney on May 8th, 2019
Everyone knows that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. But back in the 1930s, the correct answer would have been 24. So what happened?
