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Jun 20, 2009 48 min

Synthetic life and gene mining

from Background Briefing Hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Not only can we create new life forms, but our own genes are starting to show us all the diseases we're likely to get during our lives. Do we want to know and what are the costs? Reporter: Ian Townsend

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