Naked Genetics, from the Naked Scientists
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Naked Genetics, from the Naked Scientists

by Will Tingle

From plants to pathogens, fruit flies to fungi and hamsters to humans, Naked Genetics takes a look at the science of genes. With in-depth interviews and the latest discoveries from the world of genetics, tune in for a look inside your genes...

100 episodes
EN language
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1
CRISPR: the cutting edge of gene editing
29:53 Mar 12, 2025
2
Debunking 'junk' DNA
32:47 Dec 9, 2024
3
Will It Sequence? Synthetic DNA
24:43 Oct 9, 2024
4
Will It Sequence? 700-year-old DNA
21:17 Aug 23, 2024
5
Will It Sequence: How effective is handwashing?
19:24 Jul 16, 2024
6
Will It Sequence? What grows on your food?
24:41 Jun 7, 2024
7
Will It Sequence? Hunting drug resistant bugs
22:37 May 3, 2024
8
ADHD advantages, and mining microbiomes
22:40 Apr 5, 2024
9
The roamin' Roman Empire, and Charles Darwin's love life
28:36 Feb 28, 2024
10
The origin of Europe's MS disease, and South Pole sequencing
27:42 Jan 22, 2024
11
Testing for genetic diseases, and bats with big penises
27:50 Dec 15, 2023
12
Is vegetarianism genetic, and the penis-eating spider
30:46 Nov 14, 2023
13
COVID In Your Genes: The Risk Factors
29:46 Apr 14, 2021
14
The Genes Who Came in for the Cold
29:37 Mar 17, 2021
15
How To Tell Coronavirus Variants Apart
28:32 Feb 24, 2021
16
Identical Twins: Not Identical?
28:45 Jan 15, 2021
17
RNA vaccines, privacy, and penguins
24:03 Dec 17, 2020
18
Mink, Ivory, & a Disease Discovered Backwards
27:11 Nov 13, 2020
19
Slave Trade, Neanderthals, & COVID
28:22 Oct 16, 2020
20
How To Survive Poison
29:54 Sep 14, 2020
21
The Inner Lives of Birds
28:40 Aug 19, 2020
22
Female Mosaicism: The Stronger Sex?
27:00 Jul 15, 2020
23
Fermented foods: the real deal?
29:55 Jun 15, 2020
24
ACE2: The Coronavirus Gateway
34:01 May 14, 2020
25
The Coronavirus Mutation Situation
25:03 Apr 15, 2020
26
Gene Genealogy & The Lost Family
24:08 Mar 14, 2020
27
FOXG1 Syndrome: Fighting the Odds
25:08 Feb 20, 2020
28
The Fly Infest-agation
28:08 Jan 14, 2020
29
African genetics and ethics
28:56 Dec 14, 2019
30
What's in the water?
26:05 Nov 14, 2019
31
Quadrillions: Sequencing the UK Biobank
29:35 Oct 14, 2019
32
The Dog Show
30:52 Sep 14, 2019
33
Mendel's Trick
30:02 Aug 14, 2019
34
Decoding a Mammoth with George Church
30:51 Mar 24, 2019
35
The CRISPR baby controversy
28:04 Dec 21, 2018
36
The future of forensic genetics
32:34 Apr 13, 2018
37
A Festival of Genomics
39:48 Mar 14, 2018
38
Crime scene genes
31:22 Feb 14, 2018
39
Back to the womb
34:58 Jan 14, 2018
40
The future of genomic medicine
32:50 Dec 14, 2017
41
Matchmaking at the zoo
35:22 Nov 14, 2017
42
Evolution's luxury item
32:22 Oct 13, 2017
43
Exposing the contents of your genes
31:23 Sep 13, 2017
44
Store, write, edit
34:34 Aug 13, 2017
45
Genes and dementia
29:52 Jul 13, 2017
46
Bees, tress and 3-D genes
34:09 Jun 13, 2017
47
Tackling tumours, curing cancer
44:07 May 13, 2017
48
Battle of the sexes
31:51 Apr 13, 2017
49
Putting genomics to work
29:03 Mar 15, 2017
50
Science and the single cell
30:04 Feb 14, 2017
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