In this episode we’re going back to the very beginning, telling the stories of the midwives of the field of developmental genetics, two talented researchers whose work helped to reveal the secrets of life in its very earliest stages: Hilde Mangold and Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch.
What exactly is cancer? How long has it been around? How does it spread? What is our current understanding of its evolution and genetics? And where are we with our fight against it?
What is DNA sequencing, how do we do it, why do we do it and how can we get better at as technology improves?
In this episode we take a look at the world of epigenetics - finding out if more than DNA passes on to the next generation, whether Darwin really was wrong, and how to pimp your genome.
