Genetics Unzipped

Stories of sneaky sheep, substandard racing stallions, and news from the front lines of the sperm wars ...

Geneticist Kat Arney takes a look at the science of de-extinction, asking whether it's feasible - or even ethical - ...

Exploring the latest advances in medical biotechnology including CRISPR-based gene therapies, infection-fighting viruses and a cure for HIV. Plus reflections ...

We unearth the story of Edith Rebecca Saunders, co-founder of The Genetics Society and the ‘mother of British plant genetics’ ...

Get your hands dirty by delving into the microbiome - the trillions of bacteria that live inside our guts ...

Forget the headlines about ‘Frankenfoods’ - there's a much richer and more nuanced story to be told about the history ...

We explore the latest findings suggesting that low doses of radiation from medical scans may enhance the growth of cancer ...

Kat Arney selects her favourite stories from the first 20 episodes of the Genetics Unzipped podcast ...

Geneticist Dr Kat Arney explores how Francis Galton's eugenic ideas led directly to some of the 20th century's worst atrocities ...

Given how little we know about how variations in the genome affect health and disease, is direct-to-consumer whole genome sequencing ...

Nobel prizes are often seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement. But are they a fair way of recognizing contributions ...

Leading geneticist and Nobel prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse reveals the audacious experiment that everyone said was crazy ...

Everyone knows that Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA. But fewer are aware of the contribution of Rosalind ...

Kat Arney and reporter Graihagh Jackson get lost in the Valley of Hybridization ...

A Victorian scientist's train ride to London leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance, Nice story, but is ...

We've broken through the thousand dollar genome barrier and are heading towards $100. Leading geneticist George Church want to take ...

Everyone knows that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. But if you'd looked at a textbook in the 1940s, the ...

Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...

Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...

Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...

A quick look at Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking peas, 'junk' DNA and the first GMO crop ...

A closer look at the genetics of failure—why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes ...