Tim and Syma’s guests are Gordon Sanghera and Lakmal Jayasinghe of Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They discuss how their elegant technology is transforming the ease with which we can now learn what information is contained in our genes and how this is being used already in hospitals to detect for example, cancers in children. Gordon gives his vision of what might be achievable in the future.

Later in this episode, Tim flies solo in the wake of Syma's imminent departure for duties on the west coast of the US!
Tim's guests are Ivan Vinogradov and Michael Jennions, both of the Australian National University, and co-authors of the scientific paper 'Paternity analysis reveals sexual selection on cognitive performance in mosquitofish".

It would appear that smarter male fish are more likely to mate and produce more offspring! How on earth could this be true?!!

Join Tim, Ivan and Michael to find out.

Link to the paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02645-3

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