Cracking Your Genetic Code

What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA - all three billion chemical letters of it - read, stored, and available for analysis? Cracking Your Genetic Code reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution.

During this remarkable documentary, we meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralise the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions. But what are the moral dilemmas raised by this new technology? Will it help or urt us to know the diseases that may lie in our future?