Episodes

  • CRISPR: the cutting edge of gene editing

    CRISPR: the cutting edge of gene editing
    Mar 12 2025
    In this edition of Naked Genetics, we take a closer look at CRISPR gene editing. What is it? And what are the ethics involved in rewriting the human genome? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    30 mins
  • Debunking 'junk' DNA

    Debunking 'junk' DNA
    Dec 9 2024
    In this episode of Naked Genetics: What new DNA techniques are revealing about human sacrifices in Mayan culture; we debunk the 'junk', in junk DNA; and, the upside down sea snail that makes rafts of its own snot... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    33 mins
  • Will It Sequence? Synthetic DNA

    Will It Sequence? Synthetic DNA
    Oct 9 2024
    In this episode of Naked Genetics: How much of your personality is down to your DNA; we also look at synthetic DNA, and why we'd want to make it; plus, the spiders that turn one species of insect against its own kind... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    25 mins
  • Will It Sequence? 700-year-old DNA

    Will It Sequence? 700-year-old DNA
    Aug 23 2024
    In this episode of Naked Genetics: A mammoth discovery in ancient DNA structure; on the subject of ancient DNA, what can we sequence for a centuries old body? And, in quirks of evolution, the animal that drinks its own offspring's blood... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    21 mins
  • Will It Sequence: How effective is handwashing?

    Will It Sequence: How effective is handwashing?
    Jul 16 2024
    In this episode of Naked Genetics: The risk factors between schizophrenia and substance use disorder have had a fresh genetic examination; I put Illumina to the test and ask, 'what difference does washing our hands really make?' And, the the extraordinary way in which dung beetles use the night sky to orientate themselves... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    19 mins
  • Will It Sequence? What grows on your food?

    Will It Sequence? What grows on your food?
    Jun 7 2024
    In this episode of Naked Genetics: What the latest genetics research has to say about restless leg syndrome; I put Illumina to the test and ask, 'what really grows on our food?'; And, what makes a tardigrade so tough? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    25 mins
  • Will It Sequence? Hunting drug resistant bugs

    Will It Sequence? Hunting drug resistant bugs
    May 3 2024
    In this month's edition of Naked Genetics: Why a genetic bottleneck created decades ago means some whales are in deep water; how wastewater is helping genetic sequencer track down deadly diseases; And, surf's up! how one beach dwelling creature is shredding the gnar in order to find food... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    23 mins
  • ADHD advantages, and mining microbiomes

    ADHD advantages, and mining microbiomes
    Apr 5 2024
    This episode of Naked Genetics: has the evolutionary advantage to ADHD been uncovered? Also, We look at the microbiome of mining. And, the only vertebrate in the world that would thank you for saying that it looked like crap... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    23 mins