#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

This week we talk to Alison Woollard, a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford,  about her life's work in Developmental Biology. She offers her thoughts on the new, mutated coronavirus strain, the history of evolution and what GM technology might offer in the future.If you are interested in helping The Biotech Podcast please take 30 seconds to take the following survey: https://harry852843.typeform.com/to/caV6cMzGFull synopsis below:00:00 - Intro1:25 - Nematode Worms10:33 - Developmental biology 15:54 - Meiosis, Differentiation and Pluripotency22:47 - Cancers and Transcription factors34:10 - Mutations and Coronavirus42:17 - Heredity and Evolution50:20 - Deepmind and Alphafold55:03 - Genetic engineering1:05:39 - Book recommendations1:09:37 - Extro