Synthetic Biology

For almost the entire history of the planet, Nature has been life's master architect, but not anymore. Synthetic biology is now allowing scientists to first copy, digitise and then manipulate life sometimes improving it to create new organisms. In this episode of Horizons we look at how far this new area of science has come and meet the godfather of synthetic biology J. Craig Venter, who's been hailed as one of the World's Greatest Living Scientists to find out how the field is expanding.