The Chemistry of Life: Milestones in Genetics
Cells are, in a sense, just tiny bags of chemicals—so what “instructs” them to divide and function? This program shows how biologists addressed the question during the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting with Friedrich Miescher’s discovery of ...
Core chemistry
This program shows why the future problems of energy, food, medicines and materials are the problems of chemistry. No science is more at the core of every technology that supports the seven billion people living on the planet today than chemistry. ...
Cell: The Spark of Life
From hydras to humans, every organism on Earth can trace its ancestry back to the first primitive cell. Will biotechnology one day create a cell outside of that family tree? This program looks at 21st-century genetic science and its search for the s...