Professor Turi King

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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.

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Professor Turi King

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The Princes in the Tower: Could Scientific Analysis Help Identify the Remains in Westminster Abbey? 01.12.2021 21:12

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?

The Sperm Donor‘s Dilemma - Professor Turi King 27.11.2021 7:46

Professor Turi King discusses the implications of wide spread use of DNA matching services and being a sperm donor or a sperm donor child.

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys and the Discovery of DNA Fingerprinting 17.09.2021 12:53

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 speak...

How DNA Inheritance Works - Professor Turi King 17.09.2021 5:46

Professor Turi King discusses how 3 different parts of our DNA are inherited from our mothers and fathers.

The Genetic Analysis of King Richard III - Professor Turi King 16.09.2021 30:49

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 conclusi...