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

  • Dec 27 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

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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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