Bo Xia and a tale of tails
Night Science
English - February 28, 2024 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Life Sciences creativity science philosophy methods scientists biology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bo Xia is a Junior Fellow at Harvard and a Principal Investigator at the Broad Institute. During his PhD with Itai, he suffered a painful tailbone injury that led to an obsession with this vestigial organ and its origins in human evolution. In this out-of-the-ordinary episode, we talk about this specific science project: how did Bo, with Itai’s help, discover the mutation that let us lose our tail?
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