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Modified

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We pull apart the twisting strands of the science and technology of life itself - from the very first person to hold up a tube of purified DNA in the thick stone walls of a German castle in the 1860s to the revolution of gene editing that sent shockwaves around the world in the 2010s. The history of biotechnology offers us the chance to understand what it takes to change the world.

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20 episodes

  1. HA Wallace and the Green Revolution 41:31
  2. SE02 EP1 Introducing the GMO Wars 10:17
  3. Season 2 Teaser 2:36
  4. CRISPR changes the world and unlocks GMO 2.0 42:28
  5. The colorful world of GMOs 49:53
  6. Your Questions Answered - Part 2 46:26
  7. Round Up Ready - The GMO that launched a thousand lawsuits 35:09
  8. Bt Crops - GMOs go mainstream 39:38
  9. First ever GMO: The FlavrSavr tomato 31:04
  10. How to Make a GMO Plant 32:21
  11. The Early Days of Genetic Engineering 26:30
  12. How Science Took Over Plant Breeding 38:53
  13. What makes a plant a crop? 28:41
  14. Your Questions Answered 56:51
  15. How Genes Keep Plants Alive 25:56
  16. How Genes Make Plants 32:39
  17. The One with Mendel and his Peas 32:45
  18. What Genes are Made of 29:37
  19. Introducing Modified 27:26
  20. Announcing Modified 4:48