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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Kat Arney, on 15 June 2023
We’re taking a journey into the world of art and artefacts, unearthing the genetic secrets of long-dead legends like Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Beethoven.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 7 May 2020
We explore the genetic diversity in Africa and discover how researchers can read the cultural and historical stories written in DNA.Posted by Kat Arney, on 23 April 2020
There's more to the story of the double helix than Watson and Crick. We unwind history to uncover some of the less well-known figures behind the discovery of the structure ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 27 February 2020
The genetic code is written in just four 'letters - A, C, T and G, short for adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine. But where did they come from? To find ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 19 December 2019
Who were the ancient Britons? And what can modern genetic and archaeological techniques tell us about their lives and loves?Posted by Kat Arney, on 24 October 2019
Unearthing the story of Edith Rebecca Saunders, the 'mother of British plant genetics'.Posted by Kat Arney, on 20 June 2019
We’re unravelling the story of the double helix, cracking the triplet code, and sketching out a Punnett square.Posted by Gemma Anderson, on 19 March 2019
An artist and a cultural historian of science visiting the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) Gemma Anderson (University of Exeter) and Janina Wellmann (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg) Since Steve Woolgar’s ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 29 March 2011
The Royal Society has collected a series of images that illustrate the moment important scientific discoveries were made. This “Moments of Seeing Further” collection includes a notebook sketch from 1980, ...