Overview
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.
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49 - 5Are You Good or Evil? September 07, 2011 -
49 - 6Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe? September 14, 2011 -
49 - 7Playing God January 17, 2012 -
49 - 8The Truth About Exercise February 28, 2012 -
49 - 9Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth March 06, 2012 -
49 - 10Out of Control? March 13, 2012 -
49 - 11Global Weirding March 27, 2012 -
49 - 12The Truth about Fat March 20, 2012 -
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