Podcasts

Innovations in genetics are already changing our lives for the better, and will continue to do so. Using gene-editing technology, ...

Kat Arney looks at the ancient war between our genes and the pathogens that infect us, from the Black Death ...

For decades, scientists suggested that fatherhood fulfilled a primarily evolutionary function: protecting and providing for offspring in return for sex ...

Europe has suspended some of its oppressive GMO regulations to speed development of a COVID-19 vaccine, drawing accusations of hypocrisy ...

Research validating a homeopathic 'drug' for erectile function was published in a peer-reviewed science journal. Europe's Green Party opposes genetic ...

Kat Arney takes a look at the world of epigenetics, finding out if more than DNA passes on to the ...

An ER physician says doctors have to consider biological sex to properly care for their patients. Coffee can send some ...

Some experts are calling for a ban on embryo gene editing after a "disaster" experiment resulted in potentially dangerous and ...

Farmers were blindsided during the heart of spraying season when a 9th Circuit Court in California vacated the registrations of ...

Researchers are bringing discoveries about the underlying genetic faults that cause eye diseases all the way through to game-changing gene ...

Geneticist Dr Kat Arney reflects on the life and work of Dame Anne McLaren, one of the leading embryologists of ...

Chemical giant Bayer just settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Has the company given its anti-GMO ...

Scientists have grown tiny human livers from skin cells and transplanted them into rats, moving us closer to saving thousands ...

Exploring how the stories of the 'cancer ladies' - Maud Slye and Pauline Gross - intersect with the eugenics movement ...

Infectious disease experts have blasted the World Health Organization for telling the public that asymptomatic patients rarely spread COVID-19. Pandemics ...

On the five-year anniversary of the Talking Biotech podcast, host and plant geneticist Kevin Folta sits down with former Monsanto ...

Two major studies which found that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine doesn't treat COVID-19 have been retracted. What does that mean ...

We talk to the researchers studying genetics and evolution in action, from chasing butterflies up mountains to artificially inseminating kakapos ...

Rapid advances in biotechnology could help prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes deaths every year. Growing drugs in GMO plants ...

Food waste plagues both farmers and consumers. Americans throw out much of what we buy at the grocery store—roughly 133 ...

In an effort to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, the USDA has revamped its biotech crop rules, sparking a ...

As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...

We explore the genetic diversity in the birthplace of humanity and discover the cultural and historical stories written in the ...

While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...

Our guest, Heather Barnes, tells parents, “You are doing great.” Having a child with different dietary needs opens the door ...

There's more to the story of the double helix than Watson and Crick. We unwind history to uncover some of ...

Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution saved an estimated billion people from starvation, but critics contend his work brought severe environmental and ...