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What Happens When Humans Start Reading — and Altering — Their Own User Manual?
Posted on · Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses his book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
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Full Show: Vaccines And Autism, And Dealing With Obnoxious People (June 21, 2018)
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: We examine concerns immigrant advocates still have despite Pres. Trump's executive order ending family separation. Then, a local expert dispels the myth that vaccines cause Autism by sharing the experience of his own daughter. Plus, we learn about humankind's increased knowledge of the human genome and our potential to alter it. And an author champions the benefits of loving the obnoxious people in our lives.
Houston Matters
What Happens When Humans Start Reading — and Altering — Their Own User Manual?
Posted on · Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses his book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee on Genetics, MTS3K Cast, and Felicia Day: Friday’s Show (May 12, 2017)
Posted on · What happens when a machine begins to read its own instruction manual? No, Iâm not talking about Skynet (from the Terminator films) but rather humanityâs rapidly increasing understanding of its genome â the code that makes us who were are. Weâve mapped it and identified genes that lead to certain disorders. So could we someday just turn some of those genes […]