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NOVA scienceNOW

Personal DNA Testing, Art Authentication, Capturing Carbon (3x2)


Air date: Jul 02, 2008

Personal DNA Testing - Genetic testing to assess risk factors for a handful of serious illnesses is now commercially available. But is it a good idea? Art Authentication - See how clever computer algorithms can distinguish a master fake from a masterpiece. Capturing Carbon - An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Profile: Pardis Sabeti - By night she's a rocker. By day, she's a Harvard geneticist tracking the evolution of the human genome.

  • Premiered: Jan 2005
  • Episodes: 36
  • Followers: 134
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 20