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Exploiting Our Genes to Fight Disease (Science During a Pandemic #1), with Max Fourman

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Why do some people get more sick than others? The answer could lie in our genes.

In this episode we talk to Max Fourman, who is part of the Baillie Lab run by Dr Kenneth Baillie, and based at the Roslin Institute at The University of Edinburgh. They use genomics - the sequencing, study, and mapping of the genome - to search for the genes that make some people more susceptible to disease. The lab is using this knowledge to study COVID-19, leading a large, collaborative, open-source research study called GenOMICC (the Genetics Of Mortality In Critical Care) to try and understand why some people are more severely affected by SARS-CoV-2.

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