Playing God.

Dr. Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists through again a new brilliant BBC2 Horizon documentary that aired on February 29th 2012 namely ’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. Is this the end or a new beginning? Judge for yourself and have a look. A-one-to-watch! Read more