Balancing the Body
Physicists seek an explanation of the universe in a theory of equilibrium; biologists, however, look for imbalance. The flaws and favours of a body, encoded in genetic ' sentences can be passed down between generations - but what controls the exchange of that information between the body's molecules and proteins?
John Maddox talks to Professor Manfred Eigen of the Max Planck Institute, about ribonucleic acid (RNA) and its place in the balance of an organism. Producer richard ELLIS