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Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu

00:02:27 NASA\'s InSight probe lands on Mars, with a slew of instruments to analyse what the red planet is made of.

00:17:43 Against all conventional knowledge, mitochondrial DNA is sometimes inherited from the father.

00:28:01 Professor He Jiankui announced he\'s created the world\'s first ever gene edited babies using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. His claims of HIV immune babies are extraordinary, but mired in contention amongst ethical and procedural controversy.

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Jo Benhamu is a Clinical Research Nurse with a Masters in Bioethics.

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This episode contains traces of Sir David Attenborough speaking at the COP24 UN conference in Katowice, Poland.