Horizon · SEASON 49
Playing God
Episode 7 · 2012-01-17
- Documentary
Episode 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.
60 minutes
Season 49 episodes
1. Do You See What I See?2011-08-08
2. Seeing Stars2011-08-15
3. The Nine Months That Made You2011-08-22
4. The Core2011-08-31
5. Are You Good or Evil?2011-09-07
6. Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?2011-09-14
7. Playing God2012-01-17
8. The Truth About Exercise2012-02-28
9. Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth2012-03-06
10. Out of Control?2012-03-13
11. Global Weirding2012-03-27
12. The Truth about Fat2012-03-20
13. Defeating Cancer2012-04-10
