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Posted by Kat Arney, on 7 April 2022
In this episode of Genetics Unzipped, Dr Kat Arney is looking at the monkey in the mirror, investigating how flipped genetic switches and long-dead viruses make all the difference between ...Posted by Leeann Kirchner, on 6 April 2022
December 3-7, 2022 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center | Washington, DC Returning in person in 2022—this mid-sized unique joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 24 March 2022
In the latest episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, sponsored by Lonza, unpacking the science behind exosomes: one of the hottest new areas of research for both diagnosing and treating ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 10 March 2022
In this week’s episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we’re exploring groundbreaking discoveries about the secret sex lives of cancer cells, and what it means for our understanding of tumour ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 24 February 2022
In this week’s episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we’re looking at a genetic history of the Americas. We chat with Jennifer Raff about the controversies surrounding how humans first ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 10 February 2022
In this episode, we’re exploring the life and work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson - one of the first scientists to bring together the worlds of mathematics and biology in the ...Posted by Kat Arney, 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 ...Posted by Kat Arney, 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 ...Posted by Kat Arney, 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.Posted by Kat Arney, 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.