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Season 3
Episode 17.5: Special interview with Yaniv Erlich
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Episode 17: Genomes, justice, and the journey here
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Episode 16.5: Fuels of the fuels
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Episode 16: Big plans for a tiny plant
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Episode 15.5: Cellular hide and seek
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Episode 15: The immune system unleashed
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Episode 14.5 – Medicine and Mad Scientists
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Episode 14 – The Cancer Answer That Wasn’t
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Season 2
Episode 13: A lesson in class
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Episode 12.5: Big decisions
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Episode 12: Good genes, bad science
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Episode 11.5: What Silicon Valley and biology research share
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Episode 11: Biology, behind the screens
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Episode 10.5: Tomato baby and its family
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Episode 10: CRISPR vs. climate change
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Episode 9.5: Redefining biologists, redefining genes
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Episode 9: Dark matter of the genome, part 2
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Episode 8: Dark matter of the genome, part 1
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Season 1
Bonus episode: Molecules and a mission
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Episode 7: The brain atlas
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Episode 6: When antioxidants are pro-cancer
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Episode 5: “Sink or swim”
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Episode 4: The people problem
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Episode 3: Non-modern family
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Episode 2: Corn controversy
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Episode 1: From phages to faces
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