Kat Arney
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Podcast: Does the Nobel Prize overlook important scientific achievements?
Genes and Science | 
Nobel prizes are often seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement. But are they a fair way of recognizing contributions ...
Podcast: Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse on his ‘barking mad’ discovery of the genes responsible for cell division
Genes and Science | 
Leading geneticist and Nobel prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse reveals the audacious experiment that everyone said was crazy ...
Podcast: Remembering Rosalind Franklin: The overlooked scientist who helped discover the DNA double helix
Genes and Science | 
Everyone knows that Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA. But fewer are aware of the contribution of Rosalind ...
Podcast: Flower color, bees and biodiversity—how pollinators drive plant evolution
Genes and Science | 
Kat Arney and reporter Graihagh Jackson get lost in the Valley of Hybridization ...
Podcast: Did a legendary train ride really lead to the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws?
Genes and Science | 
A Victorian scientist's train ride to London leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance, Nice story, but is ...
Podcast: Are you ready for the Zero Dollar Genome?
Genes and Science | 
We've broken through the thousand dollar genome barrier and are heading towards $100. Leading geneticist George Church want to take ...
Podcast: That weird time in history when humans had 24 pairs of chromosomes
Genes and Science | 
Everyone knows that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. But if you'd looked at a textbook in the 1940s, the ...
Podcast: What would have happened if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter?
Genes and Science | 
Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...
Podcast: ‘Just the wife’—how sexism in science obscured achievements of four groundbreaking researchers
Genes and Science | 
Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...
Podcast: Geneticist Mary-Claire King nearly quit science—then discovered the first breast cancer gene
Genes and Science | 
Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...
What can we learn from Mendel’s peas, onions and GM tomatoes?
Genes and Science | 
A quick look at Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking peas, 'junk' DNA and the first GMO crop ...
Big Fat Failure
Genes and Science | 
A closer look at the genetics of failure—why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes ...
Resveratrol in red wine might protect against cancer, but don’t reach for drink just yet
Cancer Research UK | 
Researchers in Leicester have published the results of a new study showing that relatively small doses of purified resveratrol, a chemical found ...
Preparing students to meet their genes in the classroom
New Scientist | 
How much information do you need before deciding whether to have your genome sequenced? In 2010, the University of California, ...
