Genetics
Agenda. Genetic Research – Interview with Sir Paul Nurse. Audio, 26 minutes
Interview with Sir Paul Nurse, British biochemist and Nobel laureate
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The Archive Hour. A Twist to Life. Audio, 60 minutes
Professor Steve Jones tells the story of DNA and its discovery.
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Agenda. 'Human Genome Belongs to Everyone,' says John Sulston, Nobel Laureate. Audio, 26 minutes
John Sulston on his Nobel Prize, and the race to map the human genome and keep it free
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Agenda. Getting the Measure of Human Nature. Audio, 26 minutes
Can innate human nature – why we are the way we are – be quantified?
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part Three. Audio, 28 minutes
Molecular biologist Inda Vermer talks about gene therapy
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part Two. Audio, 29 minutes
How Francis Collins and John Sulston got involved in the Human Genome Project
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part One. Audio, 29 minutes
Molecular geneticist Maxine Singer talks about DNA research and genetic manipulation
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The Beginner's Guide to Science. The Human Genome. Audio, 13 minutes
Dr E Virginia Lapham is a social scientist who is dipping her toe into genetics
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Science View. Human Genome Project Findings. Audio, 23 minutes
First broadcast in 2001. Humans have 26,000 to 30,000 genes - only 300 more than a mouse
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Being Human. Audio, 24 minutes
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
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Visionaries. Human Genome Project. Audio, 4 minutes
Predictions that the entire sequence of the human genome will be identified
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Essential Guide. Health: Fixing Genes. Audio, 29 minutes
What does the future hold for molecular medicine?
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Agenda. How Behaviour Develops – Nature versus Nurture Updated. Audio, 27 minutes
What role do genes play in shaping human behaviour and personality? Can we really change?
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Science View. Human Genome Project. Audio, 4 minutes
Co-operation in the human genome project which aims to sequence the entire human genome
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Science View. Genetic Engineering. Audio, 4 minutes
GM plants, patents on seeds and the terminator gene that makes seeds sterile
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Science View. Fixing Faults with Genes. Audio, 4 minutes
Over two thousand diseases are caused by faulty genes - can we fix them?
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Science View. DNA, Darwinism and Genes. Audio, 4 minutes
How DNA, genes and biological determinism interact to make us who we are
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Science View. DNA and Genes. Audio, 4 minutes
Examining the lack of understanding surrounding DNA and genes
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Science View. Genes and Behaviour. Audio, 3 minutes
Genes give us a blueprint, while our environment moulds how that blueprint turns out
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Science View. Making Babies Without Men. Audio, 4 minutes
A discussion on human cloning, IVF treatment and same sex parenting
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Global Concerns. Drought in Southern Africa. Audio, 14 minutes
A decrease in rainfall in southern Africa signals the beginning of a 100-year long drought
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Global Concerns. Loggerhead Turtles of Zakynthos. Audio, 13 minutes
How tourism is disrupting turtle breeding on the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos
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Desert Island Discs. Dr Steve Jones. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is geneticist Dr Steve Jones
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They Made Our World. Mendel. Audio, 9 minutes
How Mendel's study of peas led to him becoming one of the founders of modern biology
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