Kat Arney BBC Presenter & Science Journalist

Dr Kat Arney is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster based in the UK, and is director of the science communications consultancy First Create The Media. She is the author of the popular science books Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding how our genes work and How to Code a Human. She has fronted several BBC Radio 4 science documentaries and the comedy factual series Did the Victorians Ruin the World?, and has written for Wired, the BBC, the Daily Mail, the Times Educational Supplement, the Guardian, Nature, Mosaic, New Scientist and more.

Joaquim speaks to Kat about the history on Genetics, Dr. Mendel, Watson and Crick, Human Genome Project, Genes, RNA, Proteins, Chromosomes, Genetic Switch, where genetic information come from, how these impact traits, transfer of hereditary and physical characteristics, Epileptics, mutations, genetic testing, 23 and Me, human Gene editing and modification and more.