Synthetic life, discredited MMR research and the political landscape

In this week's pod: Andrew Wakefield and his discredited MMR research, the new political landscape and how it fares for science and the creation of the first synthetic life. We hear from Craig Venter about the building of the bacterial genome in our regular feature from Science Magazine.Guests in the studio are; Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council and Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal. Presented by Clive Cookson and Andrew JackProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.