of ambitions of inequality ah, 75 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence. what has remained of his vision? where does the world so called the largest democracy stand? where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on, on violet bias. done these legacy start august 6th on b, w. ah, demons, a creative. as soon as we arrive on the planets, we stop making things. we even create ourselves as individuals and build and advance with all the tools at our disposal. when it comes to technology and genetic engineering, the possibilities are almost endless. i

welcome to you tomorrow to day the science program on d w. ah, for thousands of years we humans have used other living creatures for our own purposes. we've changed their characteristics through breeding. wild animals have been domesticated and break to be productive and easier to keep and rear oh, new plant varieties also give much higher yields than their wild counterparts. but breeding is a lengthy process. changes occurred generation by generation usually over the course of many years. modern science can drastically shorten this waiting time. simple breeding is largely a thing of the past. today,

it is all about genetic engineering intervening directly in the genome, not only speeds up the creation of new traits. it's also more precise than ever before. for the 1st time in history, humans are becoming creators of new species. even the human genome could become part of this technical revolution. the instructions for building a human being are stored in its dna. the information is hidden here in a long chain made up of 4 different building blocks, using so called genetic scissors. dna can be cut at specific locations and modified, and it's getting faster, cheaper, and more precise than ever in just a few years. these scissors have become one of the most important tools in the world, genetics labs, genetic scissors, work on plants and animals. and even on humans,

they're universal. and that's why they have such huge potential the new technology is so powerful that in just the few years, it's become a fundamental technique for geneticists. in modern plant breeding in research and in medicine. but with great power comes great responsibility. should humans intervene in the blueprint of a living being? is it crossing an ethical boundary? in creating new species, many fear that humans are playing god. genetic scissors are already being used in a wide range. good applications,

like customized plant breeding. and the development of new drugs, treatments and vaccines. it's created a lot of excitement in medical research, but some people are frightened by the technology. geneticist, professor joachim video quote, says society needs to be aware of the opportunities and dangers, especially when it comes to human applications. p fog isn't mobile fume on this. i question is always about what you use it for lines of. and i think in basic research, the risks are very limited. rochelle, but it's use on humans. you the are the very big topic for discussion makes. the info is on a dub. it's crucial that people with concerns are included from the very beginning . doesn't that they're informed about the facts and fun on and not left with some kind of vague message like, oh, well, in the still a big incalculable residual risk. dyson goes, his own colleague, but rather to tell people very clearly what the deal is and what it isn't involved

in waltney. ah, some researchers already have grand dreams of resurrecting extinct animals. could jurassic park become reality? could we bring the ancient bird archy, opt to rec, back to life? resurrection would only be possible if the original genetic material could still be read, recreating life from fossils that are millions of years old. is pure science fiction for now. but even if it becomes possible in the future, the environment of these animals also disappeared. millions of years ago. where would they live and who would benefit from them? from more recent species, like the mammoth genetic material is preserved in the permafrost of siberia,

a resurrection could be feasible in the near future. but should humans be allowed to reverse extinction? ah, the montezuma bas doesn't give we will try to all of that. i'm certain that on chelsea, i don't think it will actually bring viable species back to lightly because far too many arrows would be incorporated i and you both. and if the population of organisms that you bring back is large enough, the more than mistakes could very well we'd themselves out if you let them on a low. but that would probably result in something new done give. i don't think you'd end up with the extinct species bag of and whether something new would evolve has gone up me to hudson in this let's, if you thought safely, it was noise and with gene manipulation is nothing new in the agriculture industry, genetically optimized plants yield bigger profits, ethical concerns about the intervention in plants genome are comparatively low. even though we still don't fully understand the impact this will have on the

environment, ah, society has far more heated debates about genetic modification on animals. farm animals are now genetically optimized and not just to produce more meat. scientists also look to genetic engineering to protect animals from diseases. domestic pigs, for example, could receive in unity to swine fever. the disease is in fatal to their wild relative the warthog, thanks to gene variants. scientists hoped to transfer them to domestic pigs blue. and what's possible for animals in principle could work on humans too. but nothing in the field of genetic engineering is more controversial than

intervention in the human genome. how far can we go with ourselves? it's tempting to think that we might be able to cure cancer, prevent hereditary diseases, stop epidemics, and hope the effects of age. imagine using genetic scissors to cut out all defects directly from the genome and replacing them with healthy genes. is that what we want? mm hm. maybe one day, genetic engineering will allow us to cure most diseases and correct most defects. but who decides what is a defect? and what simply is an undesirable trait? here we enter the murky territory of customization, designing humans. and no one really knows the full extent of the risks that entails

ah, do we even know all the possible side effects of gene therapy? and can they be controlled? theologian and chair of the german ethics council, pita dab oak says questions like these go hand in hand with the ethical dilemmas that arise from the rapid progress of genetic engineering. he's a movie effect it said involve the potential side effects haven't been clarified. am mia again? that's why we would need to wait several generations. up until i try to establish that there really are no high risk consequences. easy cool for any of the offspring . alamo hm. hot on the think could can't. and shouldn't be scientists alone. who decide these developments want them to get? there needs to be a wide spread global discourse. you're buying at this cross. ah,

however, we have seen a few success stories in modern gene therapy already. one example is blood cancer treatment. many doctors see great potential in the new technology in the future. diseases could be cured that are untreatable today. but how far can we take it? should we even interfere with the genetic material of an egg or an embryo? this is known as human germ line engineering and his band for reproductive purposes in many countries, including germany. but what if it could be used to prevent diseases before birth? in germ line therapy, a genetic defect is removed at fertilization, or shortly after. in the subsequent cell divisions, all new cells carry the altered genetic material including the

reproductive, or germ cells. not only is the baby short of the defect, they will also not pass it on to their future offspring. whether or not this sort of intervention is justified is a question for lawmakers as well. how can you efficiently prevent malpractice? isn't at all possible to avoid that people will abuse these laws and carry out in humane experiments when it comes to the life of an unborn child who gets to decide what's best for it, parents, doctors, or politicians. what starts out as a medical treatment could lead to the creation of design or super humans, and a form of artificial evolution been as doth so vivid us. even if we could do this,

i don't think we should do it on the field of food us as i would be in favor of fundamentally ruling it out on those. otherwise, you really are opening up a path for new evolutions from and for me, that's very clearly a human experiments historical on feeling under them going for historical reasons and for many other reasons, that should never take place anywhere in the world, negotiate a list and having said that i'm enough of a realist to say that there will be places where it's done financially, where they're a financial or other interest. wonderful nyc. and so it's easy to imagine is sparking a new kind of evolution of human kind. ah, we're at a crossroads. genetic engineering will change our lives, whether our future is shaped by the opportunities or dangers is up to us. ah, we ask what you think? should humans intervene in the human g name, or should this be off limits?

so so says he understands the need for limits. the potential in this field is incredible and it will be a great challenge for the future of human kind. but he also says that science fiction works like brave new world and blade runner have wound us about the risks of creating a society of different genetic costs. it's a see a guy brow thinks we need to end hunger fast. shins, murray, i writes that we are living beings in a process of to allotment. let's not confuse science with evolution. the case, man, how to claw about a fair to day. humans have replaced the club with science out of fair, but we're still afraid. fear is about advisor and jessica 71 asks if we really need to reduce the diversity that exists in nature. thanks for getting in touch with and as we evolved into humans,

we invented tours that greatly expanded the scope of our abilities. that's been the crucial difference between us and of animals. ah, take climbing squirrels a much more adept than we are. but with a ladder, we can get up that too. we're not as fast as them, but we have other ways of increasing our speed. ah, we've also invented tools to help our vision in all kinds of ways and not as even hope of creating devices that enabled power play jacks to walk again. swiss researchers have seen promising results being able to paddle across a lake by yourself, despite being paralyzed or riding a recumbent bike, which you move with your arm and leg power. researchers use these images of freedom to advertise what's possible after only 5 months of training. the co head of this

project says it gives many patients hope i live best anticipate the target group with people with paraplegic filled with various degrees of severity to present his spinal cord is completely injured with that is they can't move or feel anything. what's, what's the goal of our research is to establish the method as a standard treatment without our schaeffer nickos also swap normal. it's made possible by an implant in the lower still in tech spinal cord, who, 16 electrodes amplify the movement, impulses stimulating the nerves that move the muscles. research on the principle has been conducted for more than 10 years. furs paraplegic rats learned to walk again. later researchers successfully applied the method to monkeys in 2018 electrical stimulation enabled the 1st patients with partial spinal cord injury to

walk again. now the latest step with especially developed implant chrissy them on grievously these electrodes were used for pain management. hello. now we have specifically designed implants that are longer and wider. they allow us to reach all the motor nerves and the legs and the pelvic muscles musically. these are, this makes movements much more precise, especially sideways. what various activities can be selected on the connected tablet. in addition to walking, swimming is also possible. for example, if all goes according to plan, the development from the zan should be available worldwide within 2 to 3 years. science is widely considered the dominant human sense in many cultures at least, which as wide as art and so much other visual evidence of human kind, like photos and videos. what really fond of looking at other people and animals take and our means of capturing these

images is evolving the wrong cali circus now features holographic animals and it doesn't stop that at 1st glance, they seem so real that you could touch them but really they're nothing more than light or illusions, as mathias mangold calls them, bringing them to life takes so how do whole the grams work? there are various ways to create 3 d images in space. and mathias bungled is about to reveal the secret of one of these techniques. for us. it takes a lot of alaneese and vast spinning rotors, they will come on come anchors through the holograms actually come about to rotor blades like this one is that they have lots of these small white ellie diese gun

which generate light through the number of rotations per minute what up to one, the road him of so quickly that the human i no longer registers it. um and we basically only see the holographic image dog with yeah. then that was even more of a full accomplish appeal. another technique can be used to create 3 d avatars in something called a volumetric studio where 32 cameras record a person or object from multiple angles today. holocaust survivor, eva m love, is being filmed. a way of preserving her story for future generations. vienna found delights. we were the last, our transport went from set it to nev ocoee, healthiest unfairly. from there we were taken to auschwitz. ousley misses that's been the is the image, is different air in 3 dimensions. it's more alive and more real. yeah. in that i

the men see on and it's still holding for me that it's there for generations to come in at high blood when it, as it is the form technology authorization. that's fine with me for me. sorry, not do i thought part of the message you some see the dream of a life like whole. the gram began with this movie character princess layer. she appeared with an important message in the 1977 star wars. for episode, just 40 years later, holograms can behave just like humans and even fall in love, at least in movies like here in blade runner, 2049. mm hm. the gram seem just a disturbing, futuristic fantasy at the same time. the market for virtual and mixed realities is booming by 2030. it's expected to be worth more than $30000000000.00 us dollars. whatever the technological developments hold the grounds that can speak to us in real time like princess leah are still just fiction, wendy. that ending in thought,

if you think install this princess layer, who appears as a hologram and to look like you could do that today by creating a holographic phil that was in that i did. i, nigel some one to be fighting with a lightsaber. i'm one how to go wiping out the other. that wouldn't work. i guess that would be a whole different way of interaction. because under into i feel the doin. not everything that we call a hologram is real whole graphy. to explain this to us, the physicist has set up an experiment with her colleague york in ball is elisa, good on devotion. the laser beam is split into here at one of the beams is directed here. all hits this mirror and illuminates, are obs likens objects. the light scattered from the star now reaches his photographic plate, is a photo for hello graphy. we then need a 2nd beam which hits this claim directly on that one. but at this point, we record a hologram on this photographic plate and then develop it

a photo clutter off column. afterwards, we can remove the object here and insert the hologram ya on dallas indicative oregon lions. it. it's a complicated process. it's not for nothing that the discovery won the nobel prize in 1977. real holograms are used on id cards and bank notes. they're only visible from a certain angle, whether they're real or pseudo holograms. the 3 the world really has quite a magical effect. and it offers museums new possibilities from making the invisible tangible, or 3 d viruses floated in the air. at this recent exhibition in the german city of hill design, along with a pumping heart and a digitized human being, giving a vivid insight into things that otherwise remain hidden. sophisticated technology was again, used to create the illusion. the exhibition curator

explains how such a pyramid hologram works with. i'm shot and if you look in here from below average, you see that there are 3 screens above i'm out. that means the object is projected into the space 3 times from different directions. i'm quite yet, and these are and these channels here are mirrors, you figure flick t, they reflect the image is on the screens and seem to bring it together in the middle of the space almost for them that chris impression of spatial dep ativa. it's a fascinating new way to present information and not just for museums, holograms have another advantage. they could soon also be used to store our collective knowledge. indeed, a little coffee idea on a graphic data storage is ingenious access is because you can actually tack holograms with data and then, and then you can get something like a terabytes of data. the size of a ship, the key, which is

a comparatively high level of data density or the size of our storage device yesterday. the contents of decaying books, whole libraries, or even film archives, could be stored and preserved for posterity. using this method all on disks, no bigger than a photograph. and maybe some day will also be able to communicate via the gram, just like in the star wars movies. if our blood is red, why are they blue they do you have a science question? then send it to us as a video, text or voice message. if the answer is on the show will send you a little surprises, a fine to come on. just ask this week's question comes from an auto montero from brazil.

why does water have no color taste? oh, smell, bullet shades we consume had a very specific smell, taste and color. it's due to their various ingredient, light, natural, colorings, and arrangements. water doesn't contain any such substances. it's made up of the chemical element, hydrogen and oxygen. these gases are odorless, colorless and tasteless. ah, you can see this in the destination process. water that has been evaporated and then condensed again. is free of impurities and has no color, taste or smell. it seems to make sense.

without water, there would be no life on earth. all living things needed to survive. a striking color, smell, or taste would be interpreted as a threat by many living beings. clean water presents no danger. totally pure water only exists thin laboratory conditions. usually water flows through layers of rocker earth and absorbs minerals or micro nutrients. meaning it does actually taste a little that something sodium makes it salty. well, calcium and magnesium provide a slightly bitter taste. ion meanwhile, gives the lexia of life a metallic tongue. that's one reason why we don't find water in metal bottles. the material of the container affects the flavor of the water. glass bottles are best. they retain the natural clean taste

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