Darwin Festival 09.07.28 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston
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This week we're in conversation with Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston, the man behind the human genome project. He tells how he went from chemist to biologist to work on a tiny worm, C. elegans, that laid the foundations for the sequencing of the human genome.
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