DNA

Law commissioner Donna Buckingham speaks with Kathryn Ryan about updating the law regarding storing and accessing DNA, for criminal investigation purposes, looking at where the balance should be… Audio

Robert Plomin is a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics. As a geneticist and psychologist, his lifetime's worth of research makes the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping us. In… Video, Audio

Lisa Matisoo-Smith, from the University of Otago, has won the 2018 Mason Durie Medal for her work using DNA to understand the migration of people to Aotearoa. Audio

Bags of bone fragments are casting a genetic spotlight on New Zealand's lost natural world, and on the impact of early Polynesians on its biota. Audio

The existence of the Loch Ness Monster is one of the world's greatest mysteries - and the world is one step closer to solving it, thanks to a New Zealand lead project. Otago University's Professor… Audio

It's been dubbed the biggest advance in the world of genetic engineering but scientists are still trying to discover more about what the gene-therapy CRISPR-Cas9 can do.

It's often described as… Audio

Who has access to your DNA? More importantly...do you?

Most people now have the right to access their lab results and DNA data. But that doesn't mean the companies that hold that data can't access it… Audio

Until now astronauts have had to send mysterious microbes and organisms back to earth to figure out what they are.

But for the first time, NASA astronauts have successfully sequenced DNA and… Audio

In Naked Science news, empirical evidence that wine glasses have got bigger... way bigger, and a potential breakthrough in the treatment of the degenerative brain condition Huntington's Disease. Audio

Since it was first discovered 4 years ago, the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas 9 has shown potential in its ability to remodel our DNA and correct genetic abnormalities associated with health… Audio

Anna Pilbrow says that a complex interaction of genetic factors underpin our risk of getting heart disease - and leading a healhy lifestyle lowers the risk. Audio

Precision-bred trees will be central to our economy as wood-based products replace plastic and glass fibre in laptop cases, car interiors and even aeroplanes, a molecular geneticist says. Audio