All Episodes

S6.27: Next Generation Sequence: Forging new paths in genetics

S6.26: The battle for biology: How Mendel came to rule the world

S6.25: 2023 Unzipped

S6.24: Genes, junk and the ‘dark genome’

S6.23: 40 years of HIV: the disease that broke the rules

S6.22: Dumb luck: Amazing adaptations from happy little accidents

S6.21: Time of your life: how circadian rhythms shape the world

S6.20: That’s so extra: Exploring the weird world of extrachromosomal DNA

S6.19: Food for the future: Helping plants adapt to a changing world

BONUS Hormones: The Inside Story - Is my diabetes my fault?

S6.18: An Evolutionary Revolutionary: Alfred Russel Wallace and the discovery of natural selection

S6.17: Vax to the future: The science of DNA and RNA vaccines

S6.16 Double helix double crossing? What really happened between Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick?

S6.15: Cordelia Langford: Making Big Science Happen

S6.14: Tracking COVID and tackling obesity: Meet this year’s Genetics Society award winners

S6.12: Da Vinci’s DNA: What happens when genetics meets art

S6.11: Meet the DNA Detectives hunting the causes of cancer

S6.10: Space invaders: The amazing adaptations of tardigrades

S6.09: Raiders of Noah’s Ark: Stealing genetic tricks from the animal kingdom

BONUS Re-release S3.22 - The Past, Present and Future of the Human Genome Project

S6.08: Pop goes the genome! Genetics in popular culture

S6.07: Chris Hemsworth took a genetic test for Alzheimer's. Should you?

S6.06: Bye-bye boys: The genetics behind the extinction of males

S6.05: GMO or GM NO? The ethics and realities of genome editing

S6.04: The diagnostic odyssey: A journey into genetic testing for rare diseases

S6.03: Confident, competent or confused: What do you think you know about genetics?

S6.02: Would you Adam and Eve it? In search of our earliest genetic ancestors

S6.01 Baby brain, baby body: the genetics (and epigenetics) of reproduction

S525: 2022 Unzipped

S5.24: Bats, boats and buried bodies: the hidden power of environmental DNA

Living with the Eugenic Past: Michele Goodwin

Living with the Eugenic Past: Joe Cain

Living with the Eugenic Past: Anneke Lucassen

Living with the Eugenic Past: Brian Donovan

Living with the Eugenic Past: Adam Rutherford

Living with the Eugenic Past: Elaine Riddick

Living with the Eugenic Past: Turi King

S5.23: Birds and bees… and sardines: the genetics of animal behaviour

S5.22 Little Shop of Genetic Horrors: the evolution of carnivorous plants

S5.21 Past to present: Searching for evolutionary stories in ancient DNA

BONUS! Big Biology: food for thought - plant domestication and the promise of green super rice

S5.20 Bread and fishes: the future of food in a changing climate

S5.19 Let there be light: the origins of photosynthesis

S5.18 The Genesis Machine

S5.17 Genetics of Society: How to be a queen bee

S5.16 Hap-pea 200th birthday, Mendel!

S5.15 Does size matter when it comes to your genes?

S5.14 Genes, brains and the mind: How much of your personality is encoded in your DNA?

S5.13 Genetics at your fingertips: stories from the science of identity

S5.12 In the blood: using circulating DNA to detect and monitor cancer

*Repost* Strands of life

S5.11 When should you eat your relatives?

S5.10 Squid Game: the strange science of cephalopods

S5.09 Nature, Nurture and 'The Wobble'

S5.08 Have a heart: the science of xenotransplantation

S5.07 Face to face: The viruses that made us human

S5.06 Introducing exosomes: exciting ideas for biological mailbags

S5.05 Sex and the Single Cell

S5.04 Genetics of the Americas: from migration to the modern day

S5.03 On Growth and Form: The extraordinary life and work of D'Arcy Thompson

S5.02 Breeding better humans: Exposing the dark legacy and troubling present of eugenics

S5.01 How the zebra got its stripes: When maths and molecules collide

S4.26 *Repost* Sex and death

S4.25 Best of 2021

S4.24 The Natural Lottery: How our genes shape our lives

S4.23 A menagerie of malignancy: Cancer across the animal kingdom

Bonus: Hormones: The Inside Story - Will taking hormones make me taller?

S4.22 Wired for sound: The genetics of music

S4.21 Rarities and Oddities: the strangest genetics stories of 2021

S4.20 Baby boom: The surprising science of the placenta

S4.19 Reading the book of life: A brief history of DNA sequencing

S4.18 Meet the Robinson Crusoe Islanders: the genetic roots of speech and language development

S4.17 Back to the beginning: Exploring the origins of life

S4.16 Direwolves and Denisovans: Uncovering the stories in ancient DNA

S4.15 Catching cancer: A story of devils, dogs and cannibal hamsters

S4.14 Genes for all: Making sure everyone benefits from genetics research

S4.13 Six toed cats and cyclops lambs: The story of Sonic Hedgehog

S4.12 Why me? Searching for genetic susceptibility to chronic fatigue syndrome and pain

S4.11 From genes to drugs to bugs: How genetic engineering is used to make medicines

S4.10 Creatures of the night: the genetics of bats

S4.09 Genes and giants - the science of big and small

S4.08 Making better medicines: unlocking the promise of genomics for drug discovery

S4.07 A brief history of CRISPR: how we learned to edit the genome

Suffrage Science: Dr Tamsin Edwards

S4.06: Giving nature a helping hand: how humans are shaping species

S4.05: How to be a superhero: the hidden powers within your genes

S4.04 - Dogology: The genetics of our four-legged friends

S4.03 - A dominant character: The life of JBS Haldane

S4.02 - 100 not out? Genes and ageing

S4.01 Genes and Vaccines: Where mRNA COVID-19 vaccines came from and how they work

S3.28 *Repost* Chimps, cancer genes and missing kids: An interview with Mary-Claire King

S3.27 *Repost* Not just the wife

Genetics Shambles 12: 9 Lessons and Carols for Socially Distanced People

S3.26 *Repost* When 'Becky' met Bateson: Edith Rebecca Saunders, the mother of British plant genetics

S3.25 *Repost* Uprooting the tree of life: Darwin, DNA and de-extinction

Are my hormones making me fat? Hormones: The Inside Story

Genetics Shambles 11: In conversation with Prof Steve Jones

S3.24 Best bits of 2020

Genetics Shambles 10: In conversation with Prof Aoife McLysaght

S3.23 Heat, Stick, Duplicate, Repeat: The Story Of The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Genetics Shambles 9: The ethics of genetics

S3.22 The Past, Present and Future of the Human Genome Project

Genetics Shambles 8: New genetic technologies

S321 From Philadelphia to Baltimore: Tales of Chromosomes, Cancer Cells and Henrietta Lacks

Genetics Shambles 7: COVID expert panel 3

S3.20 The Future of Cancer: How Genomics is Transforming Research and Treatment for All

Genetics Shambles 6: Dealing with pathogens

S3.19 Making Babies and Getting Organised: Celebrating Hilde Mangold and Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

Genetics Shambles 5: The evolution of cancer

S3.18 Rare, Well Done: Progress and challenges in rare genetic disorders

Genetics Shambles 4: The sequence of everything

S3.17 Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life

Genetics Shambles 3: Humans - Evolved and evolving

S3.16 Sickness and susceptibility: The ancient war between genes and disease

Genetics Shambles 2: A guide to the human genome

S3.15 Pimp My Genome: the wonderful world of epigenetics

Genetics Shambles 1: COVID-19 and Learning from the Past

S3.14 The eyes have it: From genetics to gene therapy

S3.13 The Cancer Ladies: Maud Slye and Pauline Gross

S3.12 Out Standing in the Field: the highs and lows of genetics fieldwork

S3.11 From one generation to the next: the life and work of Anne McLaren

S3.10 Out of Africa: uncovering history and diversity in the human genome

S3.09 Twisted history: the true story of the double helix

S3.08 Nothing about me without me: involving patients in genomic research

S3.07 An accidental invention: the story of genetic fingerprinting

S3.06 Can you have a 'perfect genome'? Myths and misconceptions in genomics

S3.05 - Poop, pus and the Manhattan Project: How we learned to spell the genetic alphabet

S3.04 Race to the Bottom

S3.03 - Fish, facts and fiction, from Haeckel’s embryos to Tiktaalik

S3.02 - Hidden family secrets revealed by genetic testing

S3.01 - Investigating the icons of evolution, from Darwin's Finches to the March of Progress

S2.07 New Light on Old Britons - Professor Turi King

S2.06 New Light on Old Britons - Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe

S2.05 New Light on Old Britons - Dr Lara Cassidy

S2.04 New Light on Old Britons - Professor Sir Walter Bodmer

S2.03 New Light on Old Britons - Dr Silvia Bello

S2.02 New Light on Old Britons - Professor Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace

S2.01 New Light on Old Britons - Galton Institute Symposium 2019 - Nick Ashton

028 - Sperm wars, sneaky sheep, substandard stallions and more

027 - Uprooting the tree of life: Darwin, DNA and de-extinction

026 - The future is now: Curing HIV, advancing CRISPR therapies, predatory phages for superbug infections and advice for a healthy life

025 - When 'Becky' met Bateson: Edith Rebecca Saunders, the mother of British plant genetics

024 - Exploring the Poop-ome, from the microbiome to metagenomics

023 Mergers and Acquisitions

022 - Big Questions about the Big C

021 In case you missed it...

020 Sex and Death

019 - The Genetic Time Machine

018 Cut. Paste. Pair. Repeat.

017 Happy 100th Birthday To Us

016 Genetics By Numbers

015 Up the Garden Path

014 The Seeds of a Great Idea

013 The Zero Dollar Genome

012 - Strands of Life

011 - Darwin vs Mendel

010 - Not just 'the wife' - the overlooked stories of women in genetics

009 - Chimps, cancer genes and missing kids

008 - Getting ready for genomic medicine

007 - Supermodels of science

006 - Big fat failure

005 - Vegetable soup

004 - Witness the fitness

003 - Hunting Huntington's, Nobel viruses and spidergoats

002 - Behind the scenes at the Christmas Lectures

001 - Get unzipped!