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Presenter Liz Bonnin meets the scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, whose innovations are changing the shape of the future. Scientists with backgrounds in medicine, nanotechnology, biotechnology and...
Biotechnology is revolutionising life in the 21st century, but with every breakthrough comes controversy. Do the benefits of stem cell technology, gene-splicing, and other advances outweigh the risks? Using...
Visits the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where Dolly the sheep was cloned, and Neal First’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where the first cloning of a cow from an embryonic cell took...
A contemporary television retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein with a fresh new twist, as literature’s most infamous creator, Dr Victor Frankenstein, is re-born in the 21st...
Looks at current developments in agricultural biotechnology and interviews scientific and industrial experts who explain how current research will benefit both producer and consumer.
Considers the public concerns surrounding the agricultural and food uses of genetically modified organisms. Looks at a risk-assessment procedure in which each new genetically modified crop has to be vetted...
In the light of genetically engineered plants and animals, chemically treated food crops and xenotransplantation, the programme aims stimulate discussion about the effects of these new technologies on...
The genetic engineering revolution makes it possible to create designer germ weapons that could devastate populations by spreading deadly diseases against which there may be no defence. Despite the efforts...
Looks at oilseed rape, which has become a major crop in England, and discusses its many uses. Genetic engineers hybridise it with alien species and materials, to produce plastics, oil and foodstuffs.
Notes the importance of potatoes in the human diet and the world economy, and looks at how scientists are using genetically engineering better, sweeter, and disease-resistant crops.
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