COVID In Your Genes: The Risk Factors
Do our genes control how we respond to COVID? The question has been nagging at the world since the pandemic began. Now we have the answer - and it's y...
Naked Genetics, from the Naked Scientists
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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...
The Genes Who Came in for the Cold
How do we cope at the extremes of low temperature? Across the world, groups of people have historically made their home in icy and inhospitable landsc...
How To Tell Coronavirus Variants Apart
We're looking at the most critical variants of the coronavirus, and finding out how to tell whether they're flummoxing COVID vaccines. Plus: the cost ...
Identical Twins: Not Identical?
Meet the small DNA differences that make their mark by existing in the magical period of early development. We'll hear how mutations in the very first...
RNA vaccines, privacy, and penguins
The first group of people in the world have received a 'genetic' vaccine against the coronavirus. What is it, and how does it work? Naked Scientist Ch...
Mink, Ivory, & a Disease Discovered Backwards
It's a regular Noah's Ark: from the coronavirus strains that have been spreading through minks, to a new DNA test that can track poached elephant ivor...
Slave Trade, Neanderthals, & COVID
This week: a risk factor for severe COVID that comes from Neanderthals; using genes to track the millions transported as slaves across the Atlantic; a...
How To Survive Poison
This week, a message from Naked Scientists listener Loretta. "I'm curious if your show might cover some of the most interesting case studies of organi...
The Inner Lives of Birds
Tweet tweet! We're talking birds, and the incredible things they can do. Today we're spotlighting five of the coolest recent stories in bird genetics:...
Female Mosaicism: The Stronger Sex?
The same thing that makes the patchwork colours on a tortoiseshell cat, also - according to some - is why human females live longer, see colour better...