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World Service,12 Mar 1999,14 mins

Medicine

To Boldly Go

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Mary Shelley questioned man's ability to play God. As early as the renaissance period, writers challenged the power of medicine. Will nano technology be able to destroy foreign or malfunctioning tissue?

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