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Million Dollar Microbes
Medicine cabinets to help with home diagnosis and treatment, chemical free pesticides, and a range of new foods, fuels and plastics are all being made possible by biotechnology. This process uses genetically altered living microbes - bacteria and viruses - to brew up a wide range of new and very profitable products. But at what price?
Alun Lewis asks if, by creating these more productive creatures might manufacturers unwittingly release an unpredictable menace on mankind?
Producer JENNY WALKER

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Alun Lewis
Producer:
Jenny Walker
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