A look at the veracity of scientists' claims that they are on the verge of being able to predict our futures by analysing our genes and ...
Adam Rutherford shows how decoding the human genome has led us to begin to understand the very process by which our DNA makes each one ...
Adam Rutherford explores how the entire human genome was decoded, discovering that every human carries the entire story of life on earth ...
How the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known...
Dr Adam Rutherford takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride as he explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of a...
Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.
Adam Walton looks at the work of the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, where scientists are exploring the question of whether genes aff...
Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, exploring the thinking around the proposed new screening test...
When the human genome was sequenced, it was heralded as one of the most sign...
Dara O'Briain explores how many genes humans have in common with mice, fruit flies...
Sickle cell disease is an inherited disease, caused by a single change in the DNA sequence.
Daphne and Barbara are so similar because they are clones, two people who have exactly the same genetic makeup. When their mother was pregnant, her fertil...
The human genome is the total of our hereditary information, the complete list of every single one of the three billion bases in our DNA.
How does the DNA code work?
Sally Phillips discusses a new, and far more accurate, type of embryo screening for Down's Syndrome with the...
A mother of a child with Down's Syndrome gives a talk about problems with how the medical...
Sally Phillips meets a mother who chose to abort her child after a Down's Syndrome diagnosis and reflects on ...
A genetics expert talks about the ethics of screening and a Down's Syndrome activist talks about how...
Sally Phillips talks to Razib Khan, the first scientist in the world to fully sequence an embryo's DNA.
In Iceland, Sally Phillips learns about how genetic screening is evolving to predict a complex range...
A young woman with Down's Syndrome talks about living with the condition in Iceland, a ...
An introduction to what causes Down's Syndrome, some of the symptoms and why embryo screening for the...
An explanation and visualisation of DNA, RNA, and the production of protein, the process at the heart of every living cell on earth.
Adam Rutherford explains how the work of scientist Rosalind Franklin produced the first images of the structure of DNA.
Adam Rutherford explains and illustrates the structure of DNA, and the way its discovery revealed the secret of how genes are reproduced when...
Adam Rutherford explores how scientists used better microscopes and new chemical dyes to discover and name chromosomes.
An amazing visualisation of the cell's structure, and how DNA works within it.
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