The Story of Science – What Is the Secret of Life? (2010)

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BBC The Story of Science – Episode 5 – What Is the Secret of Life, is the story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known – the human body.

It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the ‘life force’ of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough in biology – understanding the structure and workings of DNA.

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