How are scientists transcending the limits of evolution to solve global problems like food shortages and climate change? Science writer Adam Rutherford tracks the rise of synthetic biology - and the complications that arise in its wake - for his new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself. Rutherford joins Think host Krys Boyd at noon.
Rutherford makes the case for manipulating nature to cure diseases in , using breeding and farming as examples of how humans regularly engineer outcomes.
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