Dr Sally Le Page chats with cardiologist Dr Rohin Francis, from the YouTube channel MedLife Crisis, about the groundbreaking operation this year transplanting a genetically modified pig heart into a human, and the ethics of such a procedure.
All tagged endogenous retrovirus
Angelika Schnieke: making pigs more human
Dr Kat Arney chats with Professor Angelika Schnieke from the Technical University of Munich about how we create genetically modified pigs suitable for producing organ transplants for humans, and how we can avoid getting more than we bargained for from pigs.
The monkey in the mirror
Dr Kat Arney is looking at the monkey in the mirror, investigating how flipped genetic switches and long-dead viruses make all the difference between our human faces and those of our closest primate relatives.