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Horizon: 2011-2012

Adam Rutherford

Matthew Dyas

Aidan Laverty

Horizon: 2011-2012: Episode 7: Playing God

Playing God

Episode 7

Episode 7: Playing God

2011-2012

BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, Playing God

Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat.

Adam Rutherford meets the spider-goat, created by scientists and the product of a new field of research - synthetic biology.

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 an 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.

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