Friday Journal
12:00 pm
Fri December 9, 2011

Radiolab - (So-Called) Life

In this hour, Radiolab asks what is natural in a world where biology and engineering intersect. Biotechnology is making it easier and easier to create new forms of life, but what are the consequences when humans play with life? We travel back to the first billion years of life on Earth, take a look at how modern engineers tinker with living things, and meet a woman who could have been two people.  Listener information is available at