The Gene Engineers
NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research
More from Season 4
Episode 1
Hitler's Secret Weapon
NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.
Episode 2
The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs
If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle together, never mind discover anything about how these dinosaurs lived? NOVA explores the incredible world of the dinosaur scientist.
Episode 3
What Price Coal?
What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, industry, and the victims.
Episode 4
The Sunspot Mystery
NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between weather patterns and the 11 year sunspot mystery.
Episode 5
The Plastic Prison
NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.
Episode 6
Incident at Brown's Ferry
NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which came very close to developing into a major public disaster.
