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Giles Oldroyd: Go fertilise yourself
Giles Oldroyd is finding out how plants can provide their own fertiliser with a little help from specialist microbes like fungi and bacteria.
Caroline Dean: Winter is coming
Caroline Dean has devoted her research career to understanding how plants sense and respond to the changing of the seasons.
Rachel Freathy: Birthweight and diabetes risk
Dr Rachel Freathy and her team at the University of Exeter are looking at the correlation between birthweight and the risk of developing diabetes later in life.
Courtney Hanna: How to make a placenta
Dr Courtney Hanna and her team at the University of Cambridge are investigating the epigenetic changes that influence the growth and development of the placenta - a vital but poorly understood organ.
Dave Grattan: Prolactin, the hormone that does everything
Professor Dave Grattan and his team at the University of Otago are investigating the multifaceted role of the hormone prolactin in pregnancy.
Alison Woollard: Gregor Mendel - the man, the myth, the legend
Professor Alison Woollard from the University of Oxford shares some of the less well-known stories about Gregor Mendel, the forefather of genetics
The wobble of life
Presenter Dr Kat Arney explores how Professor Ben Lehner’s worm-breaking research has changed our understanding of the importance of randomness in genetics. How can we explain differences between individuals with identical nature and nurture? Perhaps there’s another factor involved; the ‘wobble’...
Meet the Mickey Mouse Mice
We discover how a chance encounter with some white-gloved mice led to new insights into heredity, through transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.