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Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services like ’23andMe’ work? Is alcoholism genetic? Dr. Sanjana answers all of these questions—and more! Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Constantine Economides Editor:…

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Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services like ’23andMe’ work? Is alcoholism genetic? Dr. Sanjana answers all of these questions—and more!

Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Shandor Garrison
Expert: Dr. Neville Sanjana
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Rahil Ashruff
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
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148 Comments

148 Comments

  1. Maan Baer Pygg

    June 6, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    the question was “why” genes mutate: because DNA replication isn’t perfect, mistakes happen. when the mistake in germ cells isn’t lethal, you get a mutation that can be passed on. sometimes even a single nucleotide mutation can change the amino acid which can significantly change the protein.

    imagine using Fahrenheit to talk about temperature xDDD

    • STS

      June 6, 2023 at 5:08 pm

      the one thing that annoyed me a bit, either use centigrade, or man, even kelvin, just… not farenheit

    • boyHowdy113

      June 6, 2023 at 5:25 pm

      ​@STS Yes, because a popular audience will understand kelvin… Obviously he chose F to make it accessible, although I agree he should have given both. Not everyone is American.

    • STS

      June 6, 2023 at 6:03 pm

      @boyHowdy113 fair enough, I would say C, kelvin was something I decided to say out of spite, as it is “the proper measurement of temperature” but being pedantic for that is pointless. but absolutely, I think it would very much benefit american audiences to experience the metric system more as a whole. just like you said, no need to remove the imperial, just have both to one side

    • Lance Chua

      June 6, 2023 at 7:46 pm

      And we have a system to correct the mutation, if ever happens.

  2. Deepak Madabushi

    June 6, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    Ah, an Indian-American doctor explaining so I can finally understand! 😬😝

  3. alhypo

    June 6, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    “Human Geneticist”…

    Isn’t every geneticist human?

  4. Suman Rodrigues

    June 6, 2023 at 3:22 pm

    When the Lenny Kravitz question was asked i genuinely thought he’ll talk at length about methylation😂

  5. deadfoot deadfoot

    June 6, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    George Santos is REALLY REALLY smart!

  6. bull oozer

    June 6, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    Don’t let money control this tech please. We are already freaked out about AI. A world consensus based on ethics is absolutely necessary for such practices.

  7. Vex Mage

    June 6, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    While I kind of wish I did like cilantro, I think it’s a bad idea to “fix” these genetic changes. They arose due to some form of evolutionary pressure. To assume this change is “broken” in the first place is a fundamental mistake in the logic. Basically, as mentioned in the beginning of the video, we don’t want to homogenize our genome because it opens us up to the reemergence of the original pressure that caused this genetic quirk. For example, the current theory on this cilantro aversion is that there is a parasitic insect that lived/lives in our bedding. The people who developed the cilantro aversion gene picked it up because this parasitic bug emits a chemical that’s unfortunately shared within the flavour/aroma profile of cilantro as well. The interesting thing about the quirk too is that the people who like cilantro cannot detect the smell, and by that I mean, they’re incapable of smelling or tasting the component. The people who you want to “fix” have the ability to detect the chemical. If anything perhaps the solution is to “fix” the cilantro to remove the component that “normal” cilantro loving people can’t even tell is there? Of course now we have a paradox, do we risk humanity for the sake of cilantro of risk cilantro for the sake of humanity? If a choice had to be made between the two, I’d think perhaps we would risk cilantro for the sake of humanity because we likely could maintain two branches of the cilantro species in one of several capacities without genetically putting cilantro at risk as we would continue to cultivate and protect it.

  8. ivan semchuk

    June 6, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    Even russian Wikipedia states his grandfather was ukrainian Jewish. Please correct and make a factchecks nexttime.

  9. CellRus

    June 6, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    Please do one for cell biology! Cell support! We have a lot of genetics and neurobiology but never have one for cell biology, which arguably one of the most diverse field in biology.

  10. D Lee

    June 6, 2023 at 5:05 pm

    Super interesting!

  11. Autodidactic Artisan

    June 6, 2023 at 5:15 pm

    5:40 that slip up is going to make some people very angry. Some moms do have a y chromosome

  12. Dark Trainer Z

    June 6, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    He definitely reminded the teacher they had homework to turn in

  13. mastod0n1

    June 6, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; the producers and creative team at Wired are doing an incredible job finding these experts. Whatever subject matter it is, I find myself intrigued.

  14. Mandeep

    June 6, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    It would’ve been interesting to hear more about eye colours

  15. elena stewart

    June 6, 2023 at 6:34 pm

    Please do one with a Pharmacist!!!

  16. dreamXcream

    June 6, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    I wonder what mutations were missed out on because that person did not reproduce

    Edit: 23&me will also replace expired kits. I had a kit that expired in 2020 and got it replaced a few months ago. It was lost during a move but found after another. Pretty good service

  17. Chrish

    June 6, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    Bruh I thought it said gynecologist I was hyped man I wanted to learn female anatomy

  18. Michael

    June 6, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    0:02 yo! whoever at WIRED uploading the closed captions – you gotta put the timestamp range, the type the words in that range, you can’t just upload the entire transcript without defining the time that it comes up in the video.

  19. Wade Williams

    June 6, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    this is an awesome series

  20. Paula Brown

    June 6, 2023 at 8:44 pm

    Have they done a bounty hunter yet?

  21. rhubarb 뀨민

    June 6, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    the last q, anything is possible if a billionaire interest is piqued and they are willing to invest on it. all researches need are grants, i know i certainly do

  22. Stelladona Confredo Butler

    June 6, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    Dr. Neville is wonderful. charming and informative. thanks for these shows 🤩

  23. Jim Dandy

    June 6, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    23 and me sells your code. There is no HIIPA protection.

  24. Berny!

    June 7, 2023 at 12:33 am

    Could we engineer aging to slow it it down to extreme levels? I really hope we do. Right now, gene editing is focusing on really bad and rare diseases but maybe it should be working towards what the majority needs also! Protein folding also seems interesting, I just hope we move fast enough for the current living people so that they can benefit the tech. I’ll happily learn biology and genetics to help if I can

  25. Nayan

    June 7, 2023 at 12:49 am

    How smoothly the man explained the complex concepts. Commendable.

  26. Andrew Thompson

    June 7, 2023 at 1:13 am

    Wired is Lowkey one of the best YouTube channels

  27. Michael Young

    June 7, 2023 at 1:29 am

    I got a question for you. Who created DNA?

  28. Gubbleguard

    June 7, 2023 at 3:47 am

    He reminds me of why I was interested in genetics in the first place.

    Unfortunately, I was terrible in the class.
    But this was awesome and well explained!

  29. David Holaday

    June 7, 2023 at 4:01 am

    The cancer mutations can be prevented by having a good diet and preventing it in the first place.

  30. Poppy Flds3

    June 7, 2023 at 4:18 am

    Jeans can mutate? 🤯

  31. The Last Fire

    June 7, 2023 at 5:49 am

    13:31 realy interesting

  32. wakzyon

    June 7, 2023 at 7:42 am

    To be honest, the human nature is to enhance, Stone Age > Bronze Age > Metal Age 🤘, Industrial Age, Technological Age… Why won’t we want to push the boundaries and enhance ourselves? Less disease, hunger, longer life, better innovation, great minds that we will not loose too soon. Ethics has always been a matter of perspective. I do think we will end up in a genetically modified society its just a matter of time, look at RNA Vaccines which is the first step into that genre for the masses

  33. Filipe Pires

    June 7, 2023 at 8:09 am

    “moms don’t have a Y chromossome”

    And just like that, Dr. Neville and Wired got cancelled for hate speech.

  34. JOHN REY DELA TORRE

    June 7, 2023 at 8:55 am

    Question #1 already had me laughing 🤣

  35. Tim Moye

    June 7, 2023 at 9:25 am

    really cool tech support Thanks for doing it

  36. boy638

    June 7, 2023 at 11:04 am

    This guy’s a geneius.

  37. Vitor Pellissari Zardo

    June 7, 2023 at 11:33 am

    Here we go again, having to convert degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius:
    – DNA breaks at temperatures above 204°C
    – cremation happens around 815°C – 1093°C

    You’re welcome, world (I didn’t convert the unities of distance because he gives examples of that distance and it is less important) 😛

    (Really cool video though, you guys are AMAZING ♡♡)

  38. Dawnfer Ian Atondo

    June 7, 2023 at 11:48 am

    we want moreee

  39. Anonomix

    June 7, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    Look up Thought Emporium Synthetic Silk if you’re interested in recombinant silk

  40. hacmin

    June 7, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    where battle damage

  41. Aurobindo Ghosh

    June 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    this geneticist gets paid by twitter and cosmetics industry to advertise twitter services and cosmetic products

  42. Gábor

    June 7, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    What does it mean for a gene to be activated? How does it activate? What is the percentage of psychopaths among the people who have the MAOA-L gene?

    • João Meira

      June 7, 2023 at 4:29 pm

      DNA is made of different nucleotides (A, T, C, G) and their chemical structure can be altered, for instance by enzymes. He talked about methylation – that’s the most common way a gene can be structurally altered when you add a methyl group (which is just an atom of carbon with three hydrogens). Some genes are not expressed unless they are methylated (the mentioned activation), and others are inhibited when they are methylated. Epigenetics is the field that studies those structural changes to DNA that change their expression.

  43. Peter Sage

    June 7, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    I’ve been rewatching _SeaQuest DSV_ recently, and that last question sounded like it came straight out of the Season 2 premiere, which introduced a hominin race of genetically engineered life forms (GELFs) who, due to their engineered genes, could survive and thrive in a low-oxygen environment; due to the destruction of rainforests, the use of machines that capture CO2 to sequester carbon and generate oxygen to keep our air breathable, and a fully implemented SDI system (ask your parents about that last one, kids), this was a crucial plot point. Unfortunately, Spielbergian pseudoscience woo tanked the plot, not just for the premiere, but for the rest of the series.

  44. Jak

    June 7, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    Cilantro literally taste like poisoning

  45. Jak

    June 7, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Africa is the most genetically diverse of all the continents. It’s so irritating that scientists don’t start there!

  46. Marc Mariano

    June 7, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    You can tell if someone is really knowledgeable in their field if they can explain it in terms everyone can understand

    • Lip stick

      June 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm

      Why isn’t somebody using Crispr to splice Telomeres for Longer quality of life???

  47. Gillian Winzinger

    June 7, 2023 at 9:25 pm

    Cilantro is evil and I don’t want to be fixed.

  48. corynardin

    June 8, 2023 at 1:34 am

    I love the last answer. Not just can we do something, but should we.

  49. Orleonzy

    June 8, 2023 at 2:03 am

    Why i didn’t hear about usage of crisp to treat AIDS. Isn’t it would be easier to make mutation in own t cell receptor, then find suitable donor?

    • Akash Dhuri

      June 8, 2023 at 5:57 am

      Doesn’t HIV hide inside the T cells, I’m not sure why would you want immune cells to kill themselves

  50. Foxy

    June 8, 2023 at 2:39 am

    Easy to understand and quite informative.
    Thanks.

  51. ZsomborHUN

    June 8, 2023 at 3:00 am

    What fo we want?
    BATTLE DAMAGE!

  52. Jude Christian Francisco

    June 8, 2023 at 3:49 am

    Bravo Dr. Neville! I wish I had a professor like you when I were in college.

  53. variabell

    June 8, 2023 at 4:18 am

    Born and raised in Asia and OCE, I’m used to many different and diverse banana cultivars, readily available. I was so confused when I moved to the USA and there was… cavendish. Just cavendish.

    • VectorWolf

      June 8, 2023 at 7:15 am

      Where I live you can also get the little red ones, and a few kinds of plantains. You can actually still get Gros Michels and other rare cultivars but they’re expensive and have to be special ordered. All the big commercial farms produce Cavendish only, pretty much.

  54. Guy Streams Stuff

    June 8, 2023 at 4:32 am

    I have to disagree with the last ethical response. With evolution and adaptability mostly inapplicable to humans in the developed world, and the reality of industrial processes putting a lot of very reactive materials in the air we breathe, I’d say genetic enhancement would be a fantastic pre-emptive/preventive solution to a lot of types of cancer.

  55. Matthew Groom

    June 8, 2023 at 6:51 am

    There is something very odd about this person. Maybe a spy, hmmm I will give it some thought. Being overconfident about a subject that no one on earth knows more than the smallest amount about, pink shirt, bright blue glasses…. hmmm I will give it some more thought. Very pale hands compared to facial complexion…, hmmm it will come to me.
    Got it, he has cancer.

    Anyway, moving on. Yeah genetics fun stuff.

    Matthew
    Chosen By God.

  56. etownshawn

    June 8, 2023 at 8:01 am

    being a 5’7 man is no picnic either. dying alone

  57. t1sk1jukka

    June 8, 2023 at 8:16 am

    Could you add units in celsius(, kilograms and such if the subject has these units) in these videos too I don’t know fahrenheit and don’t always want to google whenever I see those units

  58. Mobi Dick

    June 8, 2023 at 10:51 am

    😁

  59. Mobi Dick

    June 8, 2023 at 10:53 am

    Think it was 12000years ago because at that time the equator shifted. Perhaps the race was born during that time

  60. julittok

    June 8, 2023 at 10:56 am

    These are the people we should be spending our time listening to, not the moronic plethora of actors, pop singers and the like. We would have a massive cultural overhaul if our idols were people contributing to the betterment of society and the planet.

  61. gina T

    June 8, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Wish I could ask him about MTHFR C677T genetic mutation.

  62. James MacLeod

    June 8, 2023 at 11:24 am

    I also have a genetics degree and I hate to say it but this guy is misrepresenting the field, a lot of what he says is so general it means nothing

  63. Happy Hubbs

    June 8, 2023 at 12:23 pm

    Outstanding

  64. Navajo Ninja

    June 8, 2023 at 12:27 pm

    If one parent short. U might be tall. If ur dad is tall and ur male, ull be tall. If ur female, ur moms tall, ull be tall. If ur a female, dads tall, U might be tall. If ur moms tall and ur a male, u might be tall.If parents both short, ur short .

  65. Ross-Alexander Smith

    June 8, 2023 at 12:37 pm

    That final question and answer is so unbelievably important for human development. Far more than chasing everlasting beauty, youth or “improvements”

  66. Michael Gabriel

    June 8, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    I wonder how many times this guy has heard the “Diarrhea is hereditary” joke

  67. Supot Sae-Eung

    June 8, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    what about hemophilia ? can its be fix

  68. X X

    June 8, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Really niche question but does somebody know what the protein at 12:28 is? I’ve seen a lot of protein structures but I don’t know what this could be and especially not in the context of epigenetics. Do transcription factors look like this?

  69. CZECHOUT BOOM!

    June 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    It’s so fuckin wack, that the last question was answered with the “we can, but should we?” cliché. Theoretically, catgirls are possible, but first we want to help people with serious issues. It is noble, don’t get me wrong, but still pretty wack.

  70. Lip stick

    June 8, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    Why isn’t somebody using Crispr to splice Telomeres for Longer quality of life???
    Why isn’t somebody using Crispr to splice Telomeres for Longer quality of life???
    Why isn’t somebody using Crispr to splice Telomeres for Longer quality of life???

    • Feynstein 100

      June 9, 2023 at 4:30 pm

      Because of annoying idiots like you

  71. Catherine K

    June 8, 2023 at 10:21 pm

    I wanted someone to ask about the implications of this and eugenics vs ethics in gene therapy.

  72. Dave H

    June 9, 2023 at 12:28 am

    Genes are germs

  73. V V

    June 9, 2023 at 5:12 am

    Nah, Cilantro first priority

  74. Modulus

    June 9, 2023 at 5:23 am

    2:07 this sounds so much like an add for 23 & me 😆

  75. Purple Couch

    June 9, 2023 at 6:24 am

    🎶I just took a DNA test🎶

  76. Ashton Cooper

    June 9, 2023 at 7:15 am

    What if your eyes change color?

  77. Lumeniaellina

    June 9, 2023 at 7:43 am

    Amazing to think if we had more resources, we could focus on the nice to haves. Once we’ve conquered diseases, we can start to focus on enhancements. Which enhancements are justified or allowed will be another conversation, one I imagine we’ll have to vote on.

  78. Stanley Kassim

    June 9, 2023 at 11:04 am

    For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If we engineer the genome to enhance something, it will cause a chain reaction. Let’s say we enhance the genome to increase bone density: this should cause the body to give priority to the bones when ingesting phosphorus and calcium, causing other phosphorus- and calcium-dependent parts of the body to be starved of those elements and be underdeveloped. Balance in everytthing.

    • Feynstein 100

      June 9, 2023 at 4:25 pm

      Please stop misrepresenting physics. It’s why people are losing trust in science. That’s not how Newton’s third law works 🤦

  79. Miguel Cárdenas

    June 9, 2023 at 11:13 am

    Why would they use crispr on the t cells instead of the histone cells wich I understand are more likely to reproduce a lot? In the cancer treatment 12:49

  80. ratsalad

    June 9, 2023 at 12:20 pm

    I do wish Americans would specify that when they’re talking about all bananas being the same, they’re talking about Cavendish bananas – here in Asia there are still hundreds of varieties of bananas

  81. Cruz

    June 9, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    CRISPR is so promising. Would we need to understand the genetic basis for diseases like fibro, muscular dystrophy, etc first before being able to effectively cure/prevent them? As in, knowing how they’re written in the genome in the first place? Many genes, so much identifying 🤯

  82. Anthony Smith

    June 9, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    I did a report on CRISPR in college for an ecology class and how it could be used, along with eliminating or at the very least be used to design substantial treatment of human diseases, it can be used to do the same in wildlife diseases that unfortunately ravage different species. The specific examples I used is the facial tumor disease which is a cancer disease that affects Tasmanian Devils.

    • N3

      June 10, 2023 at 1:16 pm

      I think I heard something about them making genetically sterile mosquitoes to release and kill all the disease carrying wild ones. Super cool stuff!

    • Nzomy

      June 11, 2023 at 5:32 am

      i have one question, will CRISPR be cheaper with time? does anything indicate that it will be cheaper? asking for treating Genetic diseases purposes*
      Not the weird stuff

    • Kristie Ray

      June 11, 2023 at 7:32 am

      🤗

    • Anthony Smith

      June 11, 2023 at 2:22 pm

      @Nzomy the answer to whether CRISPR will be cheaper with time is contingent on capitalism. There has always been the idea that the easier something is to produce, both in cost and time, its price goes down. Unfortunately we know for a fact this is not true. There are thousands and thousands of products that have we have perfected making, reducing both cost and time to do so, and they actually cost more than they used to. Take cars for example. Almost the whole process is automated. The process of mining the materials is performed by essentially slave labor where little to no money is lost to pay for that labor. Yet, a knew car still runs you $30k when a new car 60 years ago in the 60s wasn’t even close to that. In fact, it was more than a factor of 10 less. $2600 was the average for a new car in 1960, and it’s $30k today. The only thing that determines whether or not something is cheaper is the capitalist themselves, if they are willing to sell something for cheaper or not. Since most only begin to sell something for cheaper when they are about to unveil something new they can sell for more, and there really isn’t any foreseen system beyond CRISPR that could be sold for more – my guess is the CRISPR system will remain the same in its cost.

  83. Bayla Rubin

    June 9, 2023 at 3:34 pm

    Technically there are some germline cancer variants which are present in about 10% of cases of cancer

  84. Jack Gallagher

    June 9, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    “mums don’t have a y chromosome” treiggeeegeeerrrddddd

  85. nineathena

    June 9, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    thanks so much for explaining this all so well. i needed this in standard 8 (year 10….)

  86. Feynstein 100

    June 9, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    Saying “we’ve sequenced the human genome” is like saying “we’ve photographed the human face”. That was just one person. There are 8 billion other faces out there, and 8 billion other genomes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a remarkable achievement. I just find it annoying when we aren’t given the full picture. This causes confusion and distrust in science.

  87. chenlly jean

    June 9, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    Answer to the thumbnail’s question at 4.23
    You’re welcome.

  88. William D

    June 9, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    How does DNA match up during fertilization? How is it all put together to make a new human?

  89. sia staal

    June 9, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    Sooo… can CRISPR take my mutated gene and fix it so my body isn’t fu*ked anymore?😢😅

  90. Joel Juntak

    June 9, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    Suatu larutan mengandung 0,4 mol anion fluorida dan 0,3 mol hidrogen fluorida (HF). Hitunglah pH larutan ini setelah penambahan 70 mL 0,6 M HCl (HF, Ka = 7,2 x 10-4)

  91. Xintong Bian

    June 9, 2023 at 11:25 pm

    i find it somehow related to the recent changes of AI! AI field should also have a consensus about what we can do and what we should not. Thanks for keeping the genetic engineering field ethic

    • Brianna Lenneman

      June 11, 2023 at 2:55 pm

      Have u seen the movie “gattaca.”

  92. Sarah J

    June 9, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    Could Crispr be used to cure COPD?

  93. IsntPhoenix

    June 10, 2023 at 12:25 am

    1:20 EXPLAIN HUSKIES EYES

  94. aakash

    June 10, 2023 at 1:27 am

    Again an Indian origin Doctor ❤😂😂😂

  95. ДЕВУ

    June 10, 2023 at 7:42 am

    Lenny kravits is not hot lol

  96. Asa Featherstone, IV

    June 10, 2023 at 8:04 pm

    That first question was outta pocket 😂

  97. O - O

    June 10, 2023 at 8:10 pm

    Is height really 50% genetic? Kinda doubt it

  98. norwaydude

    June 11, 2023 at 10:10 am

    Where can I send in questions for these videos?

  99. ICRA95

    June 11, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    such a complex creation

  100. Phalgun Vedantam

    June 11, 2023 at 12:50 pm

    I only saw the thumbnail. Maybe try denim?

  101. SU

    June 11, 2023 at 2:04 pm

    This is so interesting I have dark blue and green eyes and I’m very mixed with Indian arab nubain Egyptian and European 😮 and I love your page I love to learn more and more

  102. Brianna Lenneman

    June 11, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    So wha causes me to be near sighted with astigmatism? Is it possible to reverse that in the future?

  103. AZ Card Guy

    June 11, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    Cilantro tastes like GARBAGE

  104. Bryan

    June 11, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    Your buying the wrong jeans!!!

  105. Shakeel Zaman

    June 11, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    I wish this guy was my biology teacher

  106. Jill Crowe

    June 12, 2023 at 12:19 am

    Wow. This is the best speaker I’ve ever heard to explain this material. I worked in science for 30 years.

  107. Jill Crowe

    June 12, 2023 at 12:20 am

    Eppendorf pipetters…

  108. Thee Adjudicator

    June 12, 2023 at 3:40 am

    Will my genes fade in the wash?

  109. Harry Campbell

    June 12, 2023 at 4:37 am

    I don’t think anyone wants to know or should feel proud to be a descendant of Genghis Khan , If you do then I’m guessing you’re ignorant to the fact he raped 2000 women

  110. Michael Grey

    June 12, 2023 at 11:36 am

    He said blue eyes mutation started in Europe. How did it start with the African tribe where every member has blue eyes

    • Bell Bottoms

      June 13, 2023 at 6:44 am

      Probably European colonization

    • Jela-tin my business

      June 15, 2023 at 2:54 am

      It’s also possible that the first blue eyes mutation happend in Europe and then another, independent mutation, happend in Africa.

  111. Ka Ho Tam

    June 12, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    i got my sequenced by Nebula (WGS, 30x) it definitely doesn’t cost $1000 lol

  112. Mila R

    June 12, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    So the fact the cilantro tastes soapy to me, it’s because I have a certain gene? 🤔

    • B

      June 13, 2023 at 5:10 pm

      Yes, it is Indeed genetic! I can’t stand cilantro, and neither can my dad!
      #TeamGoodTaste 😂

  113. RITESH DAS

    June 12, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    If, we can perform experiments on humans freely like other animals by some professionals, then how much we advance in the race for survival?

  114. Kamila Djellal

    June 12, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    As a biotechnology Engineer , I wish I had this man as a teacher back when I was in uni

  115. Would You Return to Monke?

    June 12, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    f those genes for making me short

  116. gqn2

    June 12, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    So he is saying, there is still a 50% chance to grow taller?

  117. Kal Solo

    June 12, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    4:42 nature/nurture in perfect harmony ❤

  118. q e l

    June 12, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    i am still as stupid as was before this video. my brain just wouldnt understand anything 🤪🤪

  119. Mac

    June 13, 2023 at 12:51 am

    Such incredibly intricate data. If anything, this strengthens my belief in the existence of God.

  120. Roland Vien

    June 13, 2023 at 6:24 am

    The way this guy speaks just shows how intelligent he is. I’m baffled by his clear and elaborate answers.

  121. Untitled

    June 13, 2023 at 10:40 am

    3:03 The question was WHY mutations happen, not the effects of mutation.

  122. Jack Sew

    June 13, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    i know someone weird asf who doesn’t like cilantro

  123. Fazoodle

    June 13, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    Did Rainin sponsor the video? 😜

  124. Daisy Ueda

    June 14, 2023 at 2:28 am

    I’m one of those people of Asian descent that feel sick with alcohol ingestion. It is impossible for me to become an alcoholic because my body can’t get used to it.

  125. rc0va

    June 14, 2023 at 7:27 am

    Worth noticing that he was so compelling and didactic during the AMA but at the very end. It would be interesting to know how exposed to and/or involved Dr. Neville’s been with DNA editing for human enhancement.

  126. Chops

    June 14, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Dude hitting on the ethics at the end! All new technological developments should pass the Ian Malcolm test: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didnt stop to think if they should”. Just because you can, that doesnt mean you should.

  127. Davi Soares Alves

    June 14, 2023 at 12:43 pm

    Very good video.

  128. Rabbit is the ROBOT

    June 14, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    For the first question, –> Gene is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t find him hot; I hope he is a nice guy though.

  129. CJ

    June 15, 2023 at 1:28 am

  130. sana kim

    June 15, 2023 at 7:27 am

    Genetics is such as wonderful field!!! However, some areas of it makes me wanna cry (even as a Biology student)

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