Building a Better Bee: Brother Adam to DNA

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."

LINKS: 

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

Progress in Bee Genetics: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/11/768

Natural Varroa Resistance in Europe: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33302465/

This podcast was 

Recorded September 2026 in Calgary. 

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