This hour, Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us from Gregor Mendel’s 19th Century experiments with pea plants to current methods of gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9, which he writes about in his latest effort, “The Gene: An Intimate History.”
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DNA Testing’s Down Side
We’ll talk about the flaws in DNA testing with NYU Law professor Erin Murphy. She writes about the topic in “Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA.”
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A History Of The Human Race
This hour, we’ll talk about how we are defined both by our genes and by the lives our predecessors lived with Christine Kenneally, author of The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.
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