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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Forensics, DNA Fingerprinting and Human Origins

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2005

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a foray into forensics, as DI Alan Cook talks about how DNA is used to solve crime, Alec Jeffreys helps us brush up on how DNA fingerprinting works, Tamsin OConnell describes how DNA can help track down human origins, and in Kitchen Science we have a live DNA fingerprinting race in which schools battle it out to discover which of the Naked Scientists is the foul footed felon with the criminally smelly feet. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.

0:07.0

Well, very good evening to you.

0:09.0

Welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me, Dr Chris Chris Smith and with Dr. Catani.

0:13.3

Hello! We're here stripping down science live on beep's local radio across the eastern

0:18.4

counties and tonight we have in store for you a forensic extravaganza because right across East Anglia

0:24.0

we'll be bringing you radio's first live DNA fingerprinting race more on that in just

0:28.4

a second but also we'll be looking at the science of forensics. How do the police use science to

0:33.9

solve crimes and here to help us do that from Essex Police is D.I.

0:37.7

Alan Cook good evening Alan.

0:38.7

Here you Chris. Thanks for joining us on the program and we'll also be looking at

0:42.0

how archaeologists can look

0:43.8

into the saying you are what you eat because Tams and O'Connell was here from

0:48.0

Cambridge University's Archaeology Department good evening Tamsin. Hi Chris.

0:50.6

And she works on what's left of you after many years have gone by

0:54.0

and winds back the clock to find out how what you et can be passed on and found out from an

0:59.0

analysis of your bones and other bits and pieces left behind in the soil.

1:03.0

So if you have any questions for either of those two, get calling now at 08559-25-2,000 or email me,

1:09.0

Chris at Naked Scientist.com.

1:12.0

Yeah, and if you've got any questions on anything else, science, technology, medicine, we want to

1:16.6

hear from you now.

1:18.0

And also if you phone in, you get a go at the quiz, science fact or science fiction,

1:21.7

where we ask you questions, you tell us if they're true or if we just made them up.

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