Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2
Scientifically...28 Heinä 2021

Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2

Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became big business - from the first biotech company that produced human insulin in modified bacteria in the late 1970s to the companies like Monsanto which developed and then commercialised the first GM crops in the 1990s. Were the hopes and fears about these products of genetic engineering realised?

First broadcast on Tuesday 27 July 2021.

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