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  1. Tomorrow’s World (2013)

    Director
    Graham Strong
    Producer
    Graham Strong
    Subject
    Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  2. Biotechnology in the 21st Century Series (4 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 25 minutes), £249.00 (series)

    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...

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  3. Cloning: How and Why (2008)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 34 minutes), £35.00

    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...

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  4. Frankenstein (2007)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £17.99

    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...

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  5. Biotechnology 1 (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £9.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at current developments in agricultural biotechnology and interviews scientific and industrial experts who explain how current research will benefit both producer and consumer.

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  6. Biotechnology: Whose Science? Whose Ethics? (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  7. Risky Business: Biotechnology and Agriculture (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Science
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+p&p +VAT) 1998 sale: £40.00 (+p&p +VAT)

    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...

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  8. Germ Genie, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Baillie
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 149.00 (+p&p) (Films for the Humanities and Sciences- NTSC version only) 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) (BBC) 1998 sale: US$

    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...

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  9. Plant Factory (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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.

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  10. Potatoes (1994 Video)

    Director
    Suzanne Campbell-Jones
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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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