SoT 319: Number Five Is Alive

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu 00:02:27 NASA's InSight probe lands on Mars, with a slew of instruments to analyse what the red planet is made of. 00:17:43 Against all conventional knowledge, mitochondrial DNA is sometimes inherited from the father. 00:28:01 Professor He Jiankui announced he's created the world's first ever gene edited babies using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. His claims of HIV immune babies are extraordinary, but mired in contention amongst ethical and procedural controversy.   Jo Benhamu is a Clinical Research Nurse with a Masters in Bioethics.   This episode contains traces of Sir David Attenborough speaking at the COP24 UN conference in Katowice, Poland.