Horizon
Season 49 Episode 7 - Playing God
7.4 ?
1964
Documentary
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending 'biological machines' into our brains.
Episodes in Season 49
1
Do You See What I See?
60 min
2
Seeing Stars
60 min
3
The Nine Months That Made You
60 min
4
The Core
60 min
5
Are You Good or Evil?
60 min
6
Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
60 min
7
Playing God
60 min
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The Truth About Exercise
60 min
9
Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
60 min
10
Out of Control?
60 min
11
Global Weirding
60 min
12
The Truth about Fat
60 min
13
Defeating Cancer
60 min
