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Can We Make Life?

NOVA Wonders · Season 1 · Episode 5
Creating life in the lab, which may become possible due to advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology, is examined. Also: using the newest technologies to bring long-extinct animals, such as the woolly mammoth, back from the dead.

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Season
1
Episode
5
Air Date
23/May/2018
Air Time
21:00
Runtime
60 min

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Creating life in the lab, which may become possible due to advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology, is examined. Also: using the newest technologies to bring long-extinct animals, such as the woolly mammoth, back from the dead.

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