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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Base Pairs podcast tells stories that convey the power of genetic information – past and present. Named among the 2018 Webby Awards’ “five best podcasts i...
SPECIAL EPISODE! [We strongly recommend listening to Base Pairs episode 17 to contextualize this extended discussion.] Some of the most soug...
Mail-order genetic testing —more accurately known as genotyping— is a growing trend. But what exactly is this data that's send back? And wha...
Biofuels are the wave of the future, and a small plant called duckweed could be a significant part of that. Hear more from Professor Rob Mar...
As concentrations of greenhouse gasses continue to rise, scientists are working hard to develop ways to ween the world off our need for foss...
Immunotherapy has been receiving much more attention over the past few years, but the history of this promising type of cancer therapy is a...
You may have heard of it; "immunotherapy" has started to appear in headlines over the last few years. In this episode, however, we reveal th...
It’s important to know that a drug works, but knowing how it works can be just as crucial. CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer discovered that the hy...
Base Pairs was just named among the 2018 Webby Award’s “five best podcasts in the world” for the subjects of science and education. Now, WE...
We look at the "reproducibility crisis" in science, and dive into a case in which cancer researchers discovered something completely unexpec...
No, we're not talking about high society or your biology class! In this episode, we share three distinct stories about classification in the...
Who will use CRISPR to alter their child's DNA? Who gets to decide which traits are desirable? Following up on our last episode, "Good Genes...
In the early 1900s, American science took a wrong turn toward eugenics. In this episode, we talk with experts in both science and history ab...
A few favorite moments from our talk with theoretical physicist and quantitative biologist, Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal, tha...
A "behind the screens" look at how biology is addressing its "most wonderful problem" – too much data. Associate Professor Gurinder S. "Mick...
Plant scientist Zachary Lippman tells stories from the field of bizarre tomatoes, intensely hot peppers, and giant pumpkins in this latest "...
Much of the hype around the genome editing tool known as CRISPR focuses on its potential to cure genetic diseases. But our bodies need more...
Set aside your notions of how biologists are born, or what the word “gene” means as you listen to our first chat episode. We talk with Assis...
One scientist’s junk is apparently everyone’s treasure! They just haven’t realized it yet. . . In this episode of Base Pairs, we question th...
Could “genome” be a misnomer? The name implies that our genetic information is mainly genes, yet when the Human Genome Project was completed...
We are Base Pairs, the podcast about "the power of genetic information." But why did we choose this name? In this bonus episode, we explain...
One in six people suffers from a mental disorder, and yet, compared to cancer and infectious disease, neuropsychiatric treatment options hav...
Fighting cancer is so difficult in part because the healthy cells we want to support often end up casualties in the crossfire of toxic treat...
Professor Adrian Krainer was offered the opportunity to run his own lab when he was just 27 years old as part of a brand new “Fellows” progr...
Nearly ten billion people will walk the Earth by 2050, and for some of the poorest and fastest growing countries, that could mean a bleak an...
From the scale of a single ancient murder victim to interactions between large groups of humans and Neanderthals who lived 100,000 years ago...
The ongoing GMO labeling debate wasn't the first agricultural controversy. In the early 1900s, it was a new and so-called "wicked" breeding...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's first fully-produced podcast series! Base Pairs tells stories that convey the power of genetic informati...