AdamRutherfordmeetsanewcreaturecreatedbyAmericanscientists-thespider-goat.Itispartgoat,partspider,anditsmilkcanbeusedtocreateartificialspider'sweb.
Itispartofanewfieldofresearch,syntheticbiology,witharadicalaim:tobreakdownnatureintosparepartssothatwecanrebuildithoweverweplease.
Thistechnologyisalreadybeingusedtomakebio-dieseltopowercars.Otherresearchersarelookingathowwemight,oneday,controlhumanemotionsbysending'biologicalmachines'intoourbrains.（轉自BBC該期地平線節目官網）