Brian Mackenwells

Brian Mackenwells is from Dublin, Ireland. He works at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, in Oxford, helping researchers communicate to the public. He co-writes the audio drama podcast www.actionsciencetheatre.com, and recently made a documentary for fun about his experience in the vomit comet.

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What does that do?

Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.