Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,3 mins

Sequencing human genomes in the fight against coronavirus

Discovery

Available for over a year

Dr Kenneth Baillie has been treating critically ill patients at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary since the pandemic started. As the lead on GenOMICC, a global collaboration on genetics and critical illness, he has joined forces with Genomics England and the NHS to pinpoint genetic signals in these patients to help identify the best treatments. (Image: DNA Genetic Code Colorful Genome, Credit: ktsimage/Getty Images.)

Programme Website
More episodes