DNA

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to look at the new studies into long Covid, including one that found patients could take up to a month to return to normal sleep and exercise patterns… Audio

This week, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles tells us about a new study that could point the way to making face masks that can detect the COVID-19 virus and explains how to spot disinformation… Audio

Director Rodney Ascher's debut 'Room 237' offered up some wild theories about interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's visionary masterpiece 'The Shining.' His latest documentary, 'A Glitch in the… Audio

A historic trial is underway in the United States to help restore vision to blind patients by editing their DNA while it is in their bodies. CRISPR gene-editing technology has been revolutionising… Audio

If you're going to read one book on human origins, Oxford professor and former Dunedinite Tom Higham's new book, The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins should… Audio

Stacey Morrison finds out just how reliable home-based DNA tests for health and fitness really are. Audio

Dr Claudia Kawas is searching for the secrets to living a longer and healthier life. Kawas and her team have been running a major study of ageing California residents for more than two decades. She… Audio

Psychologists at the University of New South Wales are hoping a new Face Test will help unearth more of Australia's top performers in facial recognition, known as super-recognisers. Dr James Dunn… Audio

Nobel prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse's latest book, What Is Life?, explores the question of what we as humans share with all other living things on this planet.  Audio

Geneticist Neil Gemmell has won the 2020 Hutton Medal for using DNA & new genomic technologies to better understant plants & animals. Audio

The next major pandemic could be inflicted by terrorists unleashing a bio-engineered virus on to the world, according to distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School, Vivek Wadwha. He joins the show to… Audio

The use of acronyms in scientific publications has spread life wildfire over the last 70 years, according to a study just published in the scientific journal eLife. Study co-author Professor Adrian… Audio

Caroline Barron embarked on a search for her father's birth family in her new book, Ripiro Beach. She wanted to find out more about where she came from and who she is. But some of what she discovered… Audio

Conservation geneticist, Tammy Steeves talks to Kathryn Ryan about how she helps some of our highly threatened native birds find 'the one' using DNA to estimate relatedness and make pairing… Audio, Gallery

Ireland-born and Australian-based author Chris Flynn's latest novel Mammoth is an unsurprisingly left-field offering, featuring actors Nicholas Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio, and narration by a… Audio

A new blood test has been developed to indicate a person's "pace of ageing", meaning it can estimate a person's biological age and help indicate whether they are more prone to develop chronic disease… Audio