Animal Genes and Human Health with Vincent Lynch
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As a kid, all Vincent Lynch wanted to do was hang out by the river near his home, fishing and crabbing and playing in the muck. School, by contrast, was a bore. Then he discovered biology—and never looked back. Today, as an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo, Lynch studies the genomic history of animals both living and extinct to understand everything from why elephants don’t get cancer to why women go into labor. In this episode of Driven to Discover, Lynch talks to host Tom Dinki about what it means to run a “curiosity-driven” lab, why resurrecting extinct species is a bad idea, and how analyzing animal genes could help humans lead longer, healthier lives.
Credits:
Host: Tom Dinki
Guest: Vincent Lynch
Writer/Producer: Laura Silverman
Production and editing by UB Video Production Group
Coming on Nov. 5: Forensic dentist Mary Bush is a leading expert on bitemark evidence. She speaks to host Laurie Kaiser about her efforts to eradicate this faulty science from the U.S. court system, explains why victim identification is important work, and shares how she ended up on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries.”
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