Building a Better Bee: Brother Adam to DNA

About Bees, Culture & Curiosity · Oct 4, 2026 · 1h 42m

Season 9 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Building a Better Bee: Brother Adam to DNA

Brother Adam spent his life trying to build a better bee. Thirty years after his death, we can sequence bee genomes, scan more than 100,000 genetic markers and even edit honey-bee DNA. But have we actually made the bee better? This episode follows the journey from Buckfast Abbey to CRISPR — and discovers that genetics may have advanced faster than our definition of "better."

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Tribute to Brother Adam: https://www.melissocosmos.gr/2016/02/tribute-to-brother-adam.html

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