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The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature

A Storyville documentary. The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. What will CRISPR mean for human evolution?

The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere and designing our own children.

This Storyville documentary is a provocative exploration of CRISPR's far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it鈥檚 affecting and the bio-engineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions, we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

1 hour, 26 minutes

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Director Adam Bolt
Executive Producer Dan Rather

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