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Discovery: Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares

Series 1, episode 0

Biologist Matthew Cobb looks at the 50-year history of genetic engineering - from the concerns around the first attempts at combining the DNA of one organism with the genes of another in 1971 to today's gene-editing technique known as CRISPR