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The code of life may tell us “how” we are, but not “who” we are.
In the PBS documentary Cracking the Code of Life, the viewer gets a glimpse at the science and issues surrounding the growing field of genetics. Since actually making sense of practices like DNA sequencing is pretty complex, the feature uses comparisons pretty liberally. Eric Lander, the geneticist that the host probably spends the most time […]
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