Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2

Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became
big business - from the first biotech company that produced human
insulin in modified bacteria in the late 1970s to the companies
like Monsanto which developed and then commercialised the first
GM crops in the 1990s. Were the hopes and fears about these
products of genetic engineering realised?


First broadcast on Tuesday 27 July 2021.