Horizon
Season 49 Episode 7 - Playing God
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
Do You See What I See?
60 min
Seeing Stars
60 min
The Nine Months That Made You
60 min
The Core
60 min
Are You Good or Evil?
60 min
Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
60 min
Playing God
60 min
The Truth About Exercise
60 min
Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
60 min
Out of Control?
60 min
Global Weirding
60 min
The Truth about Fat
60 min
Defeating Cancer
60 min