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12/19/19 • 7 min
Professor Nick Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum, is studying the earliest humans in Europe.
Part of our special series from the 2019 Galton Institute Symposium - New Light on Old Britons.
Presented and produced by Georgia Mills for First Create The Media.
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S3.03 - Fish, facts and fiction, from Haeckel’s embryos to Tiktaalik
Genetics Unzipped
01/30/20 • 20 min
In this episode exploring great ideas in genetics, we’re discovering our inner fish - finding out whether we really do go through a fishy phase in the womb, and looking at the legacy of Tiktaalik, the first fish to walk on land.
Born in 1834, Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist with a flair for illustration - and a knack for creating incredibly detailed and widely shared scientific images. But do his infamous embryo drawings really show the true picture of early development?
Haeckel thought that we went through a 'fish' stage in the womb because our embryos appear to have gills during early development. Although his theory that 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny' has subsequently been shown to be incorrect, we now know there is a close connection between development and evolution, or 'evo-devo' as it's sometimes known.
In short, our evolutionary history is written in our developmental genes, and it’s a history that we can trace right the way back to the very first vertebrates. The best example of this is Tiktaalik - our oldest 'fishapod' ancestor that forms the missing link between fish and land-dwelling tetrapods.
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Genetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney, and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall.
006 - Big fat failure
Genetics Unzipped
02/14/19 • 30 min
We’re looking at the genetics of failure - why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes, and why billions of dollars are wasted developing drugs that don’t work. Full show notes and transcript available at https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2019/2/14/006-big-fat-failure
BONUS! Big Biology: food for thought - plant domestication and the promise of green super rice
Genetics Unzipped
10/13/22 • 75 min
It’s a special bonus episode this week, as we wanted to showcase another podcast we think you’ll like, Big Biology, and featuring their discussion about the domestication and genetic modification of rice.
If you’re enjoying it, you can find more about them at bigbiology.org and on Twitter @Big_Biology
001 - Get unzipped!
Genetics Unzipped
12/12/18 • 5 min
Big news! Genetics Unzipped is a new podcast from the Genetics Society, taking a look at the world of genes, genomes and DNA. Here's a quick teaser from our first episode, featuring Alice Roberts, Aoife McLysaght and Fran Scott, taking a sneak peek behind the scenes at the 2018 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
More info online at geneticsunzipped.com
025 - When 'Becky' met Bateson: Edith Rebecca Saunders, the mother of British plant genetics
Genetics Unzipped
10/24/19 • 32 min
We explore the story of Edith Rebecca Saunders - co-founder of The Genetics Society and the ‘mother of British plant genetics’.
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Genetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney, and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall
020 Sex and Death
Genetics Unzipped
08/15/19 • 30 min
Please fill in our short listener survey so we can make the podcasts even better, and you’ll be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of Kat’s book, Herding Hemingway’s Cats.
In this episode from our centenary series exploring 100 ideas in genetics, we’re telling tales of sex, death and extinction, and exploring the very darkest side of genetics.
Genetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney, and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall.
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027 - Uprooting the tree of life: Darwin, DNA and de-extinction
Genetics Unzipped
11/21/19 • 30 min
In this episode from our centenary series exploring 100 ideas in genetics, we’re uprooting the tree of life - asking whether we should believe our eyes or our sequencing machines when it comes to deciding what makes a species. Plus, the greatest comebacks of all time - we look at the science of de-extinction and find out whether Jurassic Park could ever become a reality.
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Genetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney with additional research by Emily Nordvang, and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall.
026 - The future is now: Curing HIV, advancing CRISPR therapies, predatory phages for superbug infections and advice for a healthy life
Genetics Unzipped
11/07/19 • 40 min
We’re reporting back from the Manova Global Health Summit, exploring the latest advances in health technology such as CRISPR-based gene therapies, infection-fighting viruses and a potential cure for HIV.
Plus veteran health columnist Jane Brody’s advice for a healthy life, and reflections on progress in cancer from US journalist and advocate Katie Couric.
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Genetics Unzipped is presented by Kat Arney and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall.
Genetics Shambles 7: COVID expert panel 3
Genetics Unzipped
10/01/20 • 76 min
Every couple of months we gather a new panel of experts for a Q&A on where things are at with our current understanding of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With so much misinformation out there it’s important that you, the public and viewers, get a change to ask a panel of experts directly and unfiltered.
For this, volume 3 of our COVID-19 Q&As Robin is joined by three experts. Dr Emma Hodcroft is a researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland working on sequencing and builds of SARS-CoV-2. Dan Davis is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester and the best selling author of The Beautiful Cure. And Dr Nisreen Alwan is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton.
To view previous episodes in the Genetics Shambles series head to Cosmicshambles.com
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How many episodes does Genetics Unzipped have?
Genetics Unzipped currently has 167 episodes available.
What topics does Genetics Unzipped cover?
The podcast is about Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Genetics Unzipped?
The episode title '024 - Exploring the Poop-ome, from the microbiome to metagenomics' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Genetics Unzipped?
The average episode length on Genetics Unzipped is 32 minutes.
How often are episodes of Genetics Unzipped released?
Episodes of Genetics Unzipped are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Genetics Unzipped?
The first episode of Genetics Unzipped was released on Dec 12, 2018.
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