Cracking the DNA code – Big Ideas – ABC News

The scientists who discovered DNA

We hope the world of the future will have less disease and disability thanks to gene and cell therapy.

With the ability to manipulate DNA were now shaping our own evolution.

So how did we crack the DNA code?

This is the story of the race to discover the shape of DNA and to understand how our genetic code creates the building blocks of life. And DNA is revealing the million-year story of Homo sapiens and the many other human species whove walked the earth.

The Story of Life recorded 2019 Royal Institution

Speaker

Matthew Cobb - Professor of Zoology University of Manchester

The story of evolution in our DNA

DNA is revealing the million-year story of Homo sapiens and the many other human species whove walked the earth.

Homo sapiens survived and thrived while the other species died out.

Though we all still carry some Neanderthal DNA.

The Long Walk First broadcast 17 April 2018

Speakers

Lisa Matisoo-Smith -Professor of Biological Anthropology University of Otago.

Adam Brumm - Australian Research Council Future Fellow Griffith University

Professor Rainer Grun -Director of the Australian Research Centre of Human Evolution Griffith University

Paul Willis - moderator - Adjunct Associate Professor in Palaeontology Flinders University.

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