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Creating Life
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 17, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by guests Ed Byrne, Adam Rutherford and Philip Ball to talk about science's quest to create life. From the medieval alchemists' recipe for creating an homunculus through to IVF, cloning and the current cutting edge science working on creating artificial DNA, the quest to create life is an age-old one, but with modern scientific techniques now a reality. Viewed by many as deeply suspicious, even heretical, creation of life is one of the key ideas that generates distrust in science, but is this fair and are we really entering a brave new world where life is no longer in nature's hands.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Presenters: Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Presenters: Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
Released:
Dec 17, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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