42: The Answer to Almost EverythingCan We Trick Our Genes?

27 min

Available until 04/11/2026

05/11/2023

Our genes determine many of our characteristics: our build, our height, the colour of our eyes or even our predisposition to music. Could it be possible to control the mechanisms that activate and inhibit our genes, as epigenetics seeks to do? Could this science make us more intelligent, more musically gifted or more athletic?

Director

Jochen Ruderer

Country

Germany

Year

2023

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