Can We Make Life?
nova wonders

Discover the breakthroughs in genetic engineering enabling scientists to create and manipulate DNA as never before. Explore the promise and peril of CRISPR. Can we cure genetic diseases? Bring extinct animals back to life? Even edit our own genes?

Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 105

About Nova Wonders:

This series takes viewers on a journey to the frontiers of science, where researchers are tackling some of the biggest questions about life and the cosmos.

From the mysteries of astrophysics, to the secrets of the body, to the challenges of inventing technologies that could rival -- and even surpass -- the abilities of the human mind, the series reveals how far we've come in our search for answers, how we managed to get here, and how scientists hope to push our understanding of the universe even further.


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