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Looks at the fate of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, now no longer needed. In the past, they were used to develop aircraft ejection seats, undergo space travel experiments, and test vaccines...
In the hundred years since the first driver died in a car crash, cars have become safer but progress has come at a price. Archive material reveals how volunteers, experiments on live animals and even the...
Recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs in China could validate the work of palaeontologist John Ostrom, who has been arguing for nearly 30 years that birds evolved from predatory dinosaurs....
Reveals how counter-measures used to protect troops in the Gulf War against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some verterans serious ill. The number of British and American veterans...
Examines the moral and scientific issues sourrounding the treatment of premature babies, as techniques of neonatal care become more sophisticated. Looks at the case of Kristen, alive after being born at 23...
Follows the progress of Dr Paul Zamecnick to treat disease and avoid damaging side effects by using DNA itself as a drug to block disease at its genetic base. Examines the long struggle against intense...
Tells the story of four men who orbited the earth in 1997 on board the ill-fated space station ‘Mir’. With both the future of manned space flight and their lives in balance, the astronauths and...
As the World Health Organisation embarks on a new plan to cut malaria deaths by half by 2010, traces the 100-year long fight against the disease, which may be responsible for over 1.5m deaths annually.
Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...
Recounts how thalidomide, a drug that caused severe disabilities in thousands of children world-wide, is being reintroduced, with encouraging results, to treat conditions linked to arthritis, leprosy, skin...
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