Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures

Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born.

Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.

But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or "gene editing".