Alok Jha
Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions
In 2012, the discovery of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 revolutionised scientists’ ability to modify DNA. Ten years on, host Alok ...
Podcast: Silicon Valley tech moguls spend billions developing technologies to help us live longer. Is this just a pipe dream?
Billions of dollars are being pumped into technologies that hope to reduce the effects of ageing. Host Alok Jha explores ...
Bionic hand controlled by thought restores movement to paralyzed limbs
Milo Marinkovic used to find it difficult to put toothpaste on his brush. He couldn’t tie his shoelaces and couldn’t ...
Faces are sculpted by ‘junk DNA’
Researchers have started to figure out how DNA fine-tunes faces. In experiments on mice, they have identified thousands of regions ...
‘US effect’: exaggerated results in genetics and psychiatry studies
Scientists who study human behavior are more likely than average to report exaggerated or eye-catching results if they are based ...
Genomes project publishes inventory of human genetic variation
The resource built by the 1,000 Genomes Project will shed light on the genetic roots of complex diseases and suggest ...
GM mouse created to detect landmines
Scientists have genetically modified mice to enable them to sniff out landmines. They hope the GM mouse, known as MouSensor, ...
