Russian medicine, technology and science, like Russia
Itself, are In a state of change and while there's less money available for research, scientists themselves are freer to put their knowledge to commercial use.
"Scientists were closely watched under the old regime, and treated as possible subversives, like creative artists. Now the emphasis has changed and a lot of them are becoming buslnesspeople, says co-presenter Carmen Pryce , who together with Howard Stableford visited
Moscow for this special report.
Among the things they look at are new archaeological and architectural uses for military spying equipment, a unique buggy that's destined for Mars, ground-breaking computer software, new ways of cleaning up the radioactive waste that's been dumped all over Moscow, and controversial medical uses of aborted foetal tissue.
Producers Bill Grist and Saul Nassé
Editor Dana Purvis
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