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#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

Update: 2020-12-27

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This week we talk to Alison Woollard, a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, about her life's work in Developmental Biology. She offers her thoughts on the new, mutated coronavirus strain, the history of evolution and what GM technology might offer in the future.

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Full synopsis below:

00:00 - Intro
1:25 - Nematode Worms
10:33 - Developmental biology
15:54 - Meiosis, Differentiation and Pluripotency
22:47 - Cancers and Transcription factors
34:10 - Mutations and Coronavirus
42:17 - Heredity and Evolution
50:20 - Deepmind and Alphafold
55:03 - Genetic engineering
1:05:39 - Book recommendations
1:09:37 - Extro

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#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

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