Quantum. Series 2, Episode 9 / produced by Geoffrey Burchfield, Naomi Lumsdaine, Paul Costello and Richard Corfield.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Burchfield, Geoffrey., Narrator.

Burchfield, Geoffrey., Producer.

Corfield, Richard., Producer.

Costello, Paul., Producer.

Lumsdaine, Naomi., Producer.

Spencer, Adam., Narrator.

Willis, Paul., Narrator.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genes--Research.

Genes.

Gravity waves--Research.

Gravity waves.

Guided cartilage regeneration.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 min.)

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : ABC Commercial, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

The latest developments in health, medicine, environmental issues, space and technology feature in this exciting and thought-provoking package of science stories. This episode looks at a powerful new technology - the gene chip, which allows researchers to analyse tens of thousands of genes in a single experiment and ultimately could reveal the role genes play in human disease; a novel surgical procedure that uses the body's own cartilage to repair knee damage; young engineer at Xerox who has dreamed up a way of building complex robots from lots of inexpensive modules; the natural chemical armoury used by sponges to ward off enemies that scientists hope to use to fight an array of human disease; and the Australian International Gravitational Observatory (AIGO) that is trying to detect gravity waves.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 10, 2014).

OCLC:

885257923