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What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
Sexual Nature 3/3
Life’s many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?
Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep