It’s Prime Time: Can New Gene Editing Technologies Re-write the Future of Health?
Many rare genetic diseases are caused by a “typo” in our DNA. For most, fixing that spelling mistake has been out of reach. But a recent cli...
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From healthcare and biotechnology to forests and fisheries, the evolving study of genomics is leading to some of the most exciting and world-changing discoveries in science and medicine. Lik...
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Shoot Your Shot: Is Male Birth Control Finally Here?
For the past 25 years, we’ve been hearing that male contraceptives are just a few years away. And then a few more… and then some more after...
Survivor - Animal Edition: How are some species adapting to a human-altered world?
If you’ve ever watched the TV show Survivor , you know the rules: outwit, outplay, outlast. But in the animal kingdom, Survivor isn’t a game...
Welcome to ‘Nice Genes!’ Season 6
Have you heard about the radioactive wolves in Chernobyl? Or the latest gene-editing tech that’s curing rare diseases? Or that male birth co...
Genomic Repeat: Nodding our Tusks to Heroic Mutations
This episode was originally released on August 2, 2022 Just like any good superhero comic, we start this episode with the science going incr...
Why Orange Cats Are Orange
Have you ever wondered why most orange cats are male? Scientists have been scratching their heads over this for decades, and now we finally...
Genomic Repeat: Calls from the Deep - A genomic whale of a story
This episode was originally released on November 15, 2022 Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface, especially when it comes to ou...
Spit Happens! The History of 23andMe
The story of 23andMe has more twists than a soap opera. Spit parties, ghosting the FDA, unicorn valuations, and massive data breaches—this c...
Genomic Repeat: Slipping Through the Spectrum - Rethinking the Divide in Autism Diagnoses
This episode was originally released on November 5, 2024 Dr. Hannah Belcher was already studying autism she found out she herself was Autist...
The 200-Year Old Whale
Bowhead whales can live for nearly 2 centuries, weigh as much as 22 elephants, and– surprisingly– rarely get cancer. So what’s their sea -cr...
Genomic Repeat: Germ Spotting - Tracking diseases using genomics
This episode was originally released on December 13, 2022 Stop the presses! New research shows that viruses locked in the Arctic permafrost...
The Music That Moves Us
Listening to and creating music is one of the most universal human experiences. It gets stuck in our heads, makes us cry in the car, and has...
TB Trails and Tails
Why Tuberculosis is still the most deadly infectious disease. Attention, DNA detectives! We’ve got a rat on the loose – but don’t worry, not...
Leave Us a Review
Got a sec? Kaylee’s popping into your feed with a teensy, weensy favour to ask: if you’re a fan of the podcast, would you do us the honour o...
Menopause Mysteries
Turning up the heat on a life stage science is still catching up to. Ok, most of us may have gotten “the period talk.” But the “menopause ta...
Gut Check
What genomics can tell us about food safety, the microbiome, and the mind. You’ve heard the saying, “you are what you eat”... Well, our gut...
Bite Club
How vector-borne diseases spread– and the critters that carry them Malaria, Lyme disease, dengue, Zika… what do they all have in common? The...
Why Athletes Collapse
The genetic clues behind sudden cardiac arrest in young individuals Every so often, we see headlines about an elite athlete collapsing mid-g...
Genetics and the Silver Screen
How medical dramas shape the way we think about genomics Medical dramas have been a staple of television for decades, from iconic primetime...
Babies and Breakthroughs
How new genomic approaches are helping diagnose and treat our tiniest patients Welcoming a new baby brings boundless love, joy, and the usua...