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Q&A - Genetics as Revolution - 2015 JBS Haldane Lecture

                 

Q&A - Genetics as Revolution - 2015 JBS Haldane Lecture

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 3 Φεβ 2016

Professor
Alison Woollard answers questions from the audience after her JBS
Haldane Lecture. Why is the cabbage genome bigger than ours? Was Mendel
dishonest with his data? Can gene editing bring a cure for cystic
fibrosis?
Watch the full 2015 Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecture here: https://youtu.be/gAOPxpm_3EA
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It
is an everyday observation that the offspring of elephants are
elephants and the offspring of humans are humans. Our biology is, quite
literally, written in our DNA, and the copying and transmission of this
genetic information is the most extraordinary process on earth.

The
ideas of genetics are revolutionary, from Mendel’s perfect 19th century
description of the mechanism of heredity, through the molecular
revolutions of the 20th century to the present day. Today, new
technologies are galvanising disruptive change, not only in our
understanding of biology, but in our ability to intervene in the very
nature of life itself. What can we change? How? Why? And indeed, should
we meddle at all?

“The bravest”, said Thucydides, “Are surely
those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and
danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it”.

Find out more about the JBS Haldane Lectures on the Genetics Society website: http://www.genetics.org.uk/Prizes/JBS...

Watch Alison Woollard’s 2015 CHRISTMAS LECTURES: http://richannel.org/christmas-lectur...
Alison
Woollard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at
the University of Oxford where she is also a Fellow of Hertford
College, Oxford. She gave the 2013 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, 'Life Fantastic'

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