The Stolen Discovery of DNA | Sci Guys Podcast

DNA is the code for almost everything that makes you you - but the story behind how we discovered and learned more about this little molecule of life is filled with sexism and scandals...
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Would you have your DNA sequenced by a company like 23andMe?

[@mrigaankamuch]

As a bio student and genetics nerd: yes...but at the same time sometimes ignorance is bliss and too much information can freak someone out

[@yourlocalnerd7788]

I thought about doing Ancestry but decided against given ethical privacy issues with those types of companies.

[@screwyourhandle]

A doctor told me to do it when I was like 24, and I hadn't heard that it might be a bad idea, so it's too late now. But at least I got a little insight into my ancestry, since I'm racially mixed to a bewildering extent and never met half of my grandparents.

[@bingerz237]

Nah, I'm good.

[@LennySpring]

Probably shouldn’t but I’d be really interested to cause I’m mixed and don’t know much about my ancestry

[@CamCamCamCamCamCamCamCamCammmm]

„You‘ve never seen Capitalism in your life“ That hit hard Corry. This is how I feel when people say Communism doesn‘t work, we‘ve tried it. Um, no… All those things were basically dictatorships with communism band-aids. Not saying Communism would work, just that we don‘t know it doesn‘t.

[@IphigeniaAtAulis]

So the groups, literally following the teachings of Marx, saying they are Communist, passing laws meant to make everyone equal, having Communist plastered all over everything, were somehow never Communist? Well, you should know that all the problems that people like you claim are the result of Capitalism are not the result of Capitalism, because we've never really tried REAL Capitalism because REAL Capitalism involves complete Laissez-faire, which has never been achieved because there has never been a nation that has not regulated its economy in someway (that means any regulation regarding health, environment, pricing, wages, permit, banking, interest rates, etc.), let alone the whole world as even so called Capitalist counties like America (which regulates heavily) have to deal with countries like China that are not Laissez-faire and therefore the benefits of that system are never realized because it can only really come to be when everyone embraces Capitalism. See, I can use the same fallacy (it's called the "No True Scotsman" fallacy in case you were wondering) you people use for Communism ("That wasn't/isn't true Communism. True Communism has never been tried.") for Capitalism. For a KZbin channel supposedly about science, I have serious reservations about its quality if the people in the comments section cannot even use basic logic and insist on treating their fallacies as true facts.

[@mrigaankamuch]

"chromo" comes from colour and I'm pretty sure the "some" comes from "soma" as in body (like in somatic cells), so it's a "coloured body" :)

[@treker2379]

Yup. Soma (σῶμα) is Greek for body.

[@mrigaankamuch]

"what do geneticists do?" Thanks now I'm reconsidering my degree four days before I start freshman year of college XD

[@fozziebean]

Better than reconsidering it when you're already halfway through your degree!

[@HeroesAndHeroiness]

NOOO we need you fellows

[@HeroesAndHeroiness]

But do what you'll get most life satisfaction of

[@darasimpson1539]

Fascinating about what is considered a wing. I think side/ventral fins on fish should be considered wings. What is swimming if not water flying

[@mrigaankamuch]

Binge listening to sci guys like it's mental health juice? Me? Nooo.

[@HeroesAndHeroiness]

Yes

[@Maggie_113]

My grandpa did a DNA test and I found out that my family is a lot more Scottish than I thought

[@LennySpring]

In Germany you also have to wait for up to two hours at the doc’s and we are paying insane amounts of money for health insurance. So the UK really can’t complain

[@mrigaankamuch]

What is a wing? Anything that redbull can give you.

[@evakeiko7844]

There is actually a spider that kinda rolls like a wheel.

[@mrigaankamuch]

Yup it was Wilkins who showed the work to Watson and Crick, in fact they were all working at Cambridge at the same time. I believe Watson had seen some of Franklin's earlier images at a conference and that's what inspired him to join the search for the structure of DNA (If I remember correctly)

[@IphigeniaAtAulis]

Actually, Watson was already pursing DNA when he attended that conference.

[@billiepflug2720]

Luke's distribution of money and credit idea is amazing, but also the low rate of success (despite great ideas and really hard work) makes taking a pay cut for potential future reward not feasible

[@carlhumanbcrab]

I would love to get my DNA sequenced but not 100% sure i want a private company to have my entire DNA on file.. Feel like that could be used against me some day

[@yourlocalnerd7788]

So what I'm hearing is if we want wheels in an animal we need to do artificial selection.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

You could get wheels in nature if you take toolmaking into account. There are already animals that roll into balls and move around that way, and there are animals that shape objects into balls and push them around. If an intelligent species learned to do this with a purpose in mind, then I would say it counts.

[@marybethchavez3740]

On my Bday 🥰

[@pamplemousse861]

"you end up with America, which objectively sucks" 😂 truth. It's the older generations that keep voting against the health care that would benefit them.

[@yourlocalnerd7788]

If she had passed away before the Nobel was given out, then even if she did got credit for her work she still wouldn't have gotten the prize, sadly. They don't give out posthumous awards.

[@cez_is_typing]

Yeah it’s actually really depressing. There was an economics award given out to three dudes except one of them, Fischer Black, didn’t get awarded because he was dead despite the fact that they acknowledged his work towards it It makes no sense

[@yourlocalnerd7788]

@@cez_is_typing Because they have to follow the rules that Nobel laid out in his will. Except for that one time they made an award in economics depsite it not being an orginal category. But shhh we're not suppose to talk about that.

[@screwyourhandle]

Nah he's right, pale skin and red hair are caused by mutations, but dark skin and hair aren't because people started out with melanin originally. I mean, all evolution is based on mutations, but human ancestors normally had melanin. Being a mutation doesn't make it bad, it's beneficial if you live in Europe, the word has just built up some negative connotations.