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Part 1: The Building Blocks of Life

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Revolutionary Biology
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Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells but it doesn’t matter how closely you look, you still won’t see them.
In fact, most of our cells are smaller than the width of a hair. To make sure that our bodies work correctly, our cells have to talk to each other – a pretty daunting task. So how do our cells communicate?

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Part 4: A New Age of Drug Discovery

You just have to step into your local chemist to see how far medicine has come over the past 100 years. Life changing drugs, which were once unthinkable – like antibiotics, insulin and the contraceptive pill – are now commonplace.
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Part 3: Advanced technology

Just over a decade ago the face of British farming changed forever. A devastating outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease led to the enforced slaughter and incineration of over 10 million livestock across the country.
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Revolutionary Biology
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Jonathan Webb
Keywords
biology
biochemistry
life
science
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 28/10/2014
Duration: 00:05:29

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