Who Wants to Live Forever?
Has the first person to live to 1,000-years-old already been born?
In the sixth episode, entitled Dorothy, Britt and Ellie imagine a world that is completely free from disease and look at the current technology that is paving a way to that world. They investigate the cutting-edge science of CRISPR, human genome writing and the mysterious world of the Diamond Light Source.
But in a world where humans are cured of disease 鈥� should they also be 鈥渃ured鈥� of ageing? Scientist Aubrey De Grey thinks so. Not only does he think ageing can be eliminated 鈥� but that the first human to live to a thousand years old already exists. To do this he says we have to turn back the clock before it鈥檚 too late. But is this really possible?
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Using CRISPR to show what genes are essential for an embryo's formation.
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David Aaronovitch asks how an antibiotic crisis can be averted.
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An Edinburgh university team analysed differences in people's genetic code for answers.
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Using an experimental treatment to try to correct a defect in one patient's DNA.
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