Imagined Worlds. Part 1: Serpent in the Garden of Eden

Subtitle: Serpent in the Garden of Eden
Synopsis: A series in which each programme is a personal account by an eminent scientist of recent changes in scientific thought. Professor Walter Herbert of Harvard University has been engaged for 20 years in deciphering the genetic message of DNA. He discusses the advances made since Crick and Watson first identified the double helix and explains how his own research has thrown light on the nature of evolution. He considers ethical questions associated with recombinant DNA, asking whether curious scientists in genetic engineering are ‘serpents in the Garden of Eden’. He appreciates that most laymen would prefer that such research be abandoned even though it may eventually enable us to escape the tyrannies of inheritance. In addition to a Nobel Prize, Professor Herbert’s work has brought him the chairmanship of a multi-million dollar genetic engineering company. The programme ends with a brief account of some of the company’s products (eg vitamins, interferon, insulin) and their uses.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.
Year of production: 1982
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Uses: Science undergraduates.*
Subjects: Biology
Keywords: DNA; genetics; Herbert, Walter

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