The Gene: An Intimate History

1x02 Revolution in the Treatment of Disease

Air Date: 2020-04-14

Runtime: 115 minutes

Overview: Part Two begins with the story of the signature scientific achievement of our time: the mapping of the human genome. As scientists learn to read the genetic code, they grapple with the dangers inherent in increasingly sophisticated and easily available methods of intervening in the very essence of what makes us human, our DNA.