Podcast Review: Babbage – The unfinished genomics revolution
This podcast episode is a timely look back at the Human Genome Project, including interviews with the UK's top geneticists...
Dr Isobel Steer is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is also a researcher at Imperial College London on medical diagnostic devices. She also obtained her PhD at Imperial developing a device to study protein-DNA interactions. She previously studied Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford, where she wrote for and edited magazines including Bang! and Phenotype.
This podcast episode is a timely look back at the Human Genome Project, including interviews with the UK's top geneticists...
Bad Blood is a documentary investigating eugenics - the movement to breed better people. Dr Isobel Steer's review delves into its dark history and troubling present...
Epigenetics play a crucial role in the development of cancer, according to two studies published in Nature...
Presenter, Dr Kat Arney, is in her element in this fascinating Genetics Unzipped episode on liquid biopsies...
Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, and on the 25th anniversary (Dollyversary?) this documentary by BBC Scotland tells the full story with never-before-seen archives...
The Centre for Bioethics and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, presented a fascinating talk on the opportunities for great medical advancements, and grave harm, presented to researchers by CRISPR/Cas9 and other apporaches to genome editing...
The biological mechanism linking a certain gene mutation with poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukaemia has been discovered...
'Are you noticing things falling apart a bit as you're getting older? ' asked presenter Dr Kat Arney, as I tune into the Genetics Society podcast. This personal attack almost makes me spill my hot cocoa and fall off my lumbar support (I'm 28 and it's a lockdown Saturday night). This is going to be a bumpy listen...
COVID-19 has made clear that we have not had enough of experts...
'I just took a DNA test', sings Lizzo on her 2017 hit single 'Truth Hurts'...
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