What contributions has The Human Genome Project made? | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

1: The Book of Life | The Gene Code

Adam Rutherford explores how the entire human genome was decoded, discovering that every human carries the entire story of life on earth ...

10/05/2016 | Science Cafe

Adam Walton looks at the work of the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, where scientists are exploring the question of whether genes aff...

2: Unlocking the Code | The Gene Code

Adam Rutherford shows how decoding the human genome has led us to begin to understand the very process by which our DNA makes each one ...

5: What Is the Secret of Life? | The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

How the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known...

A new type of screening | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Sally Phillips discusses a new, and far more accurate, type of embryo screening for Down's Syndrome with the profe...

A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, exploring the thinking around the proposed new screening test and i...

Choices about abortion | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Sally Phillips meets a mother who chose to abort her child after a Down's Syndrome diagnosis and reflects on what s...

Chromosomes | Curriculum Bites

Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.

Clones | i-Science

Daphne and Barbara are so similar because they are clones, two people who have exactly the same genetic makeup. When their mother was pregnant, her fertil...

DNA Discovery | The Gene Code

How does the DNA code work?

Genome sequencing | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Sally Phillips talks to Razib Khan, the first scientist in the world to fully sequence an embryo's DNA.

How many genes do we have compared to a banana? | Dara O'Briain's Science Club

Dara O'Briain explores how many genes humans have in common with mice, fruit flies, and bananas.

Key parts of the cell | Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell

An amazing visualisation of the cell's structure, and how DNA works within it.

Living with Down's Syndrome in Iceland | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

A young woman with Down's Syndrome talks about living with the condition in Iceland, a country wher...

Medical attitudes to Down's Syndrome | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

A mother of a child with Down's Syndrome gives a talk about problems with how the medical profession ...

Our genetic code | The Gene Code

The human genome is the total of our hereditary information, the complete list of every single one of the three billion bases in our DNA.

Sickle cell disease | Storyville

Sickle cell disease is an inherited disease, caused by a single change in the DNA sequence.

The discovery of chromosomes | The Cell

Adam Rutherford explores how scientists used better microscopes and new chemical dyes to discover and name chromosomes.

The ethics of genetic screening | A World Without Down's Syndrome?

A genetics expert talks about the ethics of screening and a Down's Syndrome activist talks about how to pr...

The first images of DNA | The Cell

Adam Rutherford explains how the work of scientist Rosalind Franklin produced the first images of the structure of DNA.