<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please fill out our listener survey at geneticsunzipped.com/survey before January 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This episode is all about the next generation, as we meet three up-and-coming scientists who have been supported by the Genetics Society, and learn all about Bermuda skinks, the Black Death and life after a genetics PhD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Full show notes, transcript and references online at &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/"&gt;GeneticsUnzipped.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2021/4/22/s408-making-better-medicines-unlocking-the-promise-of-genomics-for-drug-discovery"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/geneticsunzip"&gt;Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This episode of Genetics Unzipped was written, presented and produced by Sally Le Page with audio production by Emma Werner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast is created by &lt;a href="https://www.firstcreatethemedia.com/media"&gt;First Create the Media &lt;/a&gt;for the &lt;a href="http://genetics.org.uk/"&gt;Genetics Society&lt;/a&gt; - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Forging new paths in genetics

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This episode is all about the next generation, as we meet three up-and-coming scientists who have been supported by the Genetics Society, and learn all about Bermuda skinks, the Black Death and life after a genetics PhD.

S6.27: Next Generation Sequence: Forging new paths in genetics

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please take a minute or two to fill out our listener survey and help shape the future of the podcast: &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey" target="_blank"&gt;https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In this episode, we talk to Greg Radick from the University of Leeds to explore the impact that Gregor Mendel and his populariser William Bateson have had on the past century of genetics, and ask whether there could have been a more Weldonian view of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Full show notes, transcript and references online at &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/"&gt;GeneticsUnzipped.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2021/4/22/s408-making-better-medicines-unlocking-the-promise-of-genomics-for-drug-discovery"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/geneticsunzip"&gt;Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This episode of Genetics Unzipped was written and presented and produced by Kat Arney with audio production by Emma Werner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;This podcast is produced by &lt;a href="https://www.firstcreatethemedia.com/media"&gt;First Create the Media &lt;/a&gt;for the &lt;a href="http://genetics.org.uk/"&gt;Genetics Society&lt;/a&gt; - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How Mendel came to rule the world

We explore the impact that Gregor Mendel and his populariser William Bateson have had on the past century of genetics, and ask whether there could have been a more Weldonian view of the world.

S6.26: The battle for biology: How Mendel came to rule the world

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please take a minute or two to fill out our listener survey and help shape the future of the podcast: &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey" target="_blank"&gt;https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;As 2023 draws to a close, we’re bringing you a smorgasbord of previously unaired clips from some of our favourite interviews this year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Full show notes, transcript and references online at &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/"&gt;GeneticsUnzipped.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2021/4/22/s408-making-better-medicines-unlocking-the-promise-of-genomics-for-drug-discovery"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/geneticsunzip"&gt;Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This episode of Genetics Unzipped was written, presented and produced by Sally Le Page &amp;amp; Kat Arney with audio production by Emma Werner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast is created by &lt;a href="https://www.firstcreatethemedia.com/media"&gt;First Create the Media &lt;/a&gt;for the &lt;a href="http://genetics.org.uk/"&gt;Genetics Society&lt;/a&gt; - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Our favourite unaired clips of the year

As 2023 draws to a close, we’re bringing you a smorgasbord of previously unaired clips from some of our favourite interviews this year.

S6.25: 2023 Unzipped 

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please take a minute or two to fill out our listener survey and help shape the future of the podcast: &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey" target="_blank"&gt;https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We discover how 500,000 whole genome from UK Biobank will help medical research, plumb the depths of the ‘dark genome’ with Nucleome, and Larry Moran tells us how much of our DNA is just junk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please fill out our short listener survey &lt;a href="https://forms.gle/ccZM7jptMksbD5DTA"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Full show notes, transcript and references online at &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/"&gt;GeneticsUnzipped.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2021/4/22/s408-making-better-medicines-unlocking-the-promise-of-genomics-for-drug-discovery"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/geneticsunzip"&gt;Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This episode of Genetics Unzipped was written and presented and produced by Kat Arney with audio production by Emma Werner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast is produced by &lt;a href="https://www.firstcreatethemedia.com/media"&gt;First Create the Media &lt;/a&gt;for the &lt;a href="http://genetics.org.uk/"&gt;Genetics Society&lt;/a&gt; - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

We discover how 500,000 whole genomes will help medical research, plumb the depths of the ‘dark genome’, and ponder how much of our DNA is just junk.

S6.24: Genes, junk and the ‘dark genome’

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please take a minute or two to fill out our listener survey and help shape the future of the podcast: &lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey" target="_blank"&gt;https://geneticsunzipped.com/survey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;With 2023 marking 40 years since the discovery of HIV, we're looking back over four decades of AIDS, from the earliest whispers of a mysterious new disease to fighting back against this deadly virus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full show notes, transcript and references online at &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GeneticsUnzipped.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2021/4/22/s408-making-better-medicines-unlocking-the-promise-of-genomics-for-drug-discovery"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/geneticsunzip"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzip&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This episode of Genetics Unzipped was written, presented and produced by Emma Werner  in collaboration with Sally Le Page and with additional research by Miyako Rogers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This podcast is created by &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.firstcreatethemedia.com/media"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;First Create the Media &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;for the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://genetics.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Genetics Society&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The disease that broke the rules

With 2023 marking 40 years since the discovery of HIV, we're looking back over four decades of AIDS, from the earliest whispers of a mysterious new disease to fighting back against this deadly virus

S6.23: 40 years of HIV: the disease that broke the rules

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