Reproduction: designer babies
This program examines some of the issues raised by the potential uses and misuses of genetic technology. The program demonstrates the techniques of both ultrasound scanning and amniocentesis as well as explains genetic manipulation techniques and th...
Miracle of the human body: the reproductive system
Using the latest in 3-D graphics, medical imaging and cadaver specimens, see the human body’s reproductive system revealed in ways never seen before. Of the body's major systems, only the reproductive organs and structures are different in men and...
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...