All in 100 Ideas
The episode we had planned for this week has been held up, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to dip into the archive and reshare one of Kat’s favourite episodes, exploring the discovery of chromosomes - the strands of genetic material within every living cell - taking a look at Lyonisation, and solving the case of the missing chromosomes.
In this episode we’re taking a look at the story and the characters behind one of the most transformative - and ubiquitous - techniques in modern molecular biology: the polymerase chain reaction.
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.
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.
We take a look at the life of leading embryologist Dame Anne McLaren, whose work underpinned the development of the IVF techniques responsible for bringing millions of bundles of joy.
There's more to the story of the double helix than Watson and Crick. We unwind history to uncover some of the less well-known figures behind the discovery of the structure and function of DNA.
