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Radio 4,06 Oct 2016,30 mins

Fatty food, Event horizon of a black hole, Gene editing technology patents

BBC Inside Science

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Adam Rutherford looks at new evidence on what controls our preference for high fat food. There's a genetic detective story of giants in Northern Ireland. Adam also talks to one of the astrophysicists hoping to capture the first image of the event horizon of a black hole with a telescope that's the size of the Earth, and he hears about the patent battle over the revolutionary gene editing technology known as CRISPR-cas9.

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