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Genetics Unzipped: Da Vinci’s DNA: What happens when genetics meets art

Posted by , 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.
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Genetics Unzipped: On Growth and Form: The extraordinary life and work of D’Arcy Thompson

Posted by , 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 ...
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Out of Africa - uncovering history and diversity in the human genome

Posted by , 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.
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Genetics Unzipped: Twisted history - the true story of the double helix

Posted by , 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 ...
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Genetics Unzipped - Poop, pus and the Manhattan Project: how we learned to spell the genetic alphabet

Posted by , 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 ...
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New Light on Old Britons - podcasts from the 2019 Galton Institute symposium

Posted by , on 19 December 2019

Who were the ancient Britons? And what can modern genetic and archaeological techniques tell us about their lives and loves?
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Genetics Unzipped - When 'Becky' met Bateson: Edith Rebecca Saunders, the mother of British plant genetics

Posted by , on 24 October 2019

Unearthing the story of Edith Rebecca Saunders, the 'mother of British plant genetics'.
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Genetics Unzipped podcast: Genetics by numbers

Posted by , on 20 June 2019

We’re unravelling the story of the double helix, cracking the triplet code, and sketching out a Punnett square.
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Imaging by computer and drawing by hand

Posted by , 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 ...
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Seeing Further

Posted by , 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, ...
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