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81. The Human Genome Project (Part 3) | 66 | 05:23 | |
82. The Human Genome Project (Part 4) | 58 | 03:33 | |
83. Genetics, mental illness and DNA chips | 67 | 02:33 | |
84. Results of the Human Genome Project; sequencing and mapping | 97 | 07:48 | |
85. Having my own genome sequenced (Part 1) | 66 | 06:17 | |
86. Having my own genome sequenced (Part 2) | 51 | 06:04 | |
87. Gene sequencing and mental illness research (Part 1) | 69 | 08:06 | |
88. Gene sequencing and mental illness research (Part 2) | 61 | 06:43 | |
89. Schizophrenia penetrance | 130 | 04:36 | |
90. Classifying and coping with mental illness | 116 | 05:48 |
American molecular biologist James Dewey Watson is probably best known for discovering the structure of DNA for which he was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. His long career has seen him teaching at Harvard and Caltech, and taking over the directorship of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. From 1988 to 1992, James Watson was head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses on the study of cancer.
Title: Genetics, mental illness and DNA chips
Listeners: Walter Gratzer Martin Raff
Walter Gratzer is Emeritus Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at King's College London, and was for most of his research career a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council. He is the author of several books on popular science. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and has known Jim Watson since that time
Martin Raff is a Canadian-born neurologist and research biologist who has made important contributions to immunology and cell development. He has a special interest in apoptosis, the phenomenon of cell death.
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Date story recorded: November 2008 and October 2009
Date story went live: 18 June 2010