Journalist Bryan Walsh joins us to talk about the many probabilities of world-ending catastrophic events, reported with humor and backed up by hard science.
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Not Quite GMO: The Future Of Mutant Food
Science writer Stephen S. Hall joins us to talk about how gene editing may be the solution to global food shortages.
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The Gene Machine
Bonnie Rochman joins us to talk about the many ethical questions that arise from the knowledge gained by pre-birth testing.
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An Intimate History Of The Gene
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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Gene Editing And Muscular Distrophy
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of applying gene editing techniques to humans in order to stop Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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