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Professor Turi King is a scientist, presenter, speaker and author who is passionate about communicating science to the public. She is best known for her work in ”cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history” during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England. She is also currently featuring on BBC2‘s DNA Family Secrets, produced by Minnow films.
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Dec 10, 2021
Dec 10, 2021
16 min
Around 1 in 50 people do not have the biological father they think they have. 53-year-old Richard discovered he wasn’t blood related to the man who raised him and came to DNA Family Secrets seeking answers.
Dec 1, 2021
Dec 1, 2021
21 min
Are the remains in the urn in Westminster Abbey really those of the Princes in the Tower? And how could scientific analysis help answer this question?
Nov 27, 2021
Nov 27, 2021
7 min
Professor Turi King discusses the implications of wide spread use of DNA matching services and being a sperm donor or a sperm donor child.
Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021
12 min
On the morning of Monday September 10th, 1984, Alec Jeffreys, an as yet little-known scientist was looking at a result of an experiment, he’d set running the week previous. He was trying to look at genetic variation between individuals as a way of looking at how diseases might run in families. But what he was about to discover, was a technique that would change the world.
Professor Turi King speaks with those involved in the discovery and its first use in a criminal investigation.
Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021
5 min
Professor Turi King discusses how 3 different parts of our DNA are inherited from our mothers and fathers.
Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
30 min
Professor Turi King discusses the findings of the genetic and genealogical analysis in the King Richard III case. This includes the genealogical research, and the results of the mitochondrial and Y chromosome analysis. It also includes the genetically-predicted hair and eye colour of Richard III as well as the results of the Bayesian analysis, of all the evidence in the case, to come to a conclusion about the identity of Skeleton 1 found at the Greyfriars in Leicester.