SciShow Talk Show: Carl Zimmer & Genetics

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Curious about genetics? Dig in a little deeper with this special SciShow Talk Show featuring science writer and 2016 Stephen Jay Gould prize winner Carl Zimmer talking about what he did after receiving himself on a hard drive.

Host: Hank Green
Guest: Carl Zimmer

Table of Contents

00:10 - Introductions
04:47 - How Carl Got His Genome and How He Got Help Deciphering It
07:53 - How Much Would This Cost?
09:42 - What Did He Find In His Genome?
11:56 - What's the Difference Between This and 23andMe?
14:00 - Why are People Getting Their Genomes Sequenced?
17:15 - Concerns About Sample Populations
19:32 - Genome Sequencing as a Tool to Study the History of Humanity
22:55 - Where You Can Learn More
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it is interesting that it takes a hard drive to contain the information on something small enough to fit easily in the nucleus of a call. Fascinating even.

hellavadeal

WOW!!! Quite possibly my favorite SciShow Talk Show...EVER!

jakeanderson

I have listened to a lot of Radiolab that consulted with Carl Zimmer. It's cool to see the man behind the voice.

vmp

Carl Zimmer is awesome! This is so cool that he just showed up on a YouTube channel I also love. Thanks SciShow!

unoewho

Thanks for the great interview. I am a huge genetics nerd so this one was extra special, even if the interview didn't get very technical, I appreciate the links to the info and articles. This is fascinating!

thACgurl

Hank sounds so envious that he doesn't have his genome on a hard drive :P

biggathangigalol

I really enjoyed this episode however I felt it was distracting going between both people. I think it would be better to do a split screen instead of the way this one was done.

sassysudz

You can tell that Hank is in complete awe of getting to meet Carl.

cypressmoore

This is so awesome! I'm a huge fan of Carl Zimmer, particularly his book Parasite Rex.

Marvolo

im a genetics major, and ive always wanted to study subjects related to anthropology. thanks for the video, im fascinated.

karga

Dear SciShow's Team, could you or some one put subtitles to this videos please? Just for your latinoamerican scientist community :) Thank you guys have a great day !

pabloalfaro

In the event that hard drive is misplaced, you ought to consider having a notice on it reading "if found, please clone."

padoco

Can you get his brother Hans to do some music for the show, thanx.

tohopes

The study of the genomes with computers is called bioinformatics. Bioinformaticians write the programs which take all the small pieces of DNA and put them together to get the whole genome. Then they try to find mutations or genes wich are responsible for diseases for example.
Nowadays scientist like to sequence the genome of all the organism they are working with to get as many information as possible.
But Bioinformaticians are also interested in creating tools to make comparing genomes faster and better. For example if the scientist wants to compare the genome of a mouse and a human.
They also work on databases to store the genomes of many organisms so the can be easily compared. One of most famous databases is NCBI (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). You can past pieces of DNA in this free online tool and it will tell you if the DNA piece is found in other organisms as well by comparing your input with the whole data set.

VR_Wizard