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Fast and portable genome testing is unlocking the secrets to ourselves and the environment we live in.
It's impact could lead us to fundamentally remake our approach to medicine, agriculture, the environment, conservation and our selves.
In this episode we hear from Dr Lara Urban, a geneticist studying the kakapo in New Zealand, Dr Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Professor Anna Schuh, professor of molecular diagnostics at the Department of Oncology at Oxford University and visiting professor at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania.
Presenter / Producer: David Reid
By BBC World Service4.4
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Fast and portable genome testing is unlocking the secrets to ourselves and the environment we live in.
It's impact could lead us to fundamentally remake our approach to medicine, agriculture, the environment, conservation and our selves.
In this episode we hear from Dr Lara Urban, a geneticist studying the kakapo in New Zealand, Dr Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Professor Anna Schuh, professor of molecular diagnostics at the Department of Oncology at Oxford University and visiting professor at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania.
Presenter / Producer: David Reid

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