Horizon

Season 49 Episode 7: Playing God

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 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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

62

Episodes:

1174

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

1964

Rating:

7.5