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In the podcast this week, Dolly the sheep’s legacy, the trials of funding interdisciplinary research, and an 'IPCC' for social science.

In the podcast this week, transmissible cancer, organizing the hadron menagerie, and the latest gravitational wave result and what physicists want to know next.

In the podcast this week, “blinging” protein footballs, conserving coral reefs, adapting metalloenzymes and what has the EU ever done for research?

In the podcast this week, training misbehaving academics, the hobbit’s ancestry, creating a human genome from scratch and Google’s quantum computing plans.

This month's edition of GenePod, Genetics in Medicine's podcast, focuses on sorting out hype from reality in the use of CRISPR for human genome modification. Listen to an interview with Dr. Cecile Janssens about the limits of human genome engineering, even by powerful techniques such as CRISPR.

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Humans all over the world are born with malformations regardless of their particular ethnicity or ancestry, but the medical literature and the resources currently available depicting human malformation have been heavily slanted towards patients with western European ancestry. Maximilian Muenke and colleagues have now begun to remedy this deficiency in the medical literature with a global atlas of human malformation. Listen to GenePod, Genetics in Medicine's podcast, for the story behind this important new reference.

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In the podcast this week, the genetics behind a textbook case of evolution, Earth's core conundrum, and Pluto's polygonal surface.

In the podcast this week, how clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats.

In the podcast this week, treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, a cheap Zika test, and experimenting with history.

In the podcast this week, the Zika virus and birth defects, colliding quasi-particles, and combatting sprawling networks of spam