Talking with kids about genetics

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with a group of students from Grandview Heights School in Edmonton, Canada. The students are learning about genetics, and the instructor, John Chase asked me to talk about how genetics impacts my field, and to give them a perspective on how this stuff translates to the real world.

The quality isn’t perfect, and we had some technical glitches, but we recorded it using google hangouts, and you can see the full class.

Read the full, original story here: The Genetics of the Immune System

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