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Nature Podcast

Why mutation is not as random as we thought

Nature Podcast

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4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Challenging the dogma of gene evolution, and how chiral nanoparticles could give vaccines a boost.

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Welcome back to the nature podcast. This week, challenging the dogma of gene evolution.

1:31.6

And how chiral nanoparticles could give vaccines a boost controversial finding that could rewrite the way geneticists think about evolution.

1:57.6

We often think about mutations in the genome as a bad thing. Mutations can stop

2:03.5

essential genes from working or cause cancer. But mutations are also a source of genetic variation,

2:10.7

and this variation enables populations to adapt and survive. Every organism produces mutation and simply put, mutations are

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