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Episode 2

GM crops and human hormones from microbes. Matthew Cobb explores the hopes and fears when commercial products of genetic engineering were launched into the world.

Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became big business - from the first biotech company that produced human insulin in modified bacteria in the late 1970s to the companies like Monsanto which developed and then commercialised the first GM crops in the 1990s. Were the hopes and fears about these products of genetic engineering realised?

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28 minutes

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Mon 2 Aug 2021 21:00

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  • Tue 27 Jul 2021 11:00
  • Mon 2 Aug 2021 21:00