Science for life.

Surveys 50 years of medical-scientific achievements through archive film clips. Topics covered include cod liver oil as treatment for rickets, the 1917-18 influenza epidemic, the discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer, the discovery of the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (which includes material on how research grants are awarded), thermography imaging, Cesar Milstein's development of monoclonal antibodies (which includes information on pharmaceutical research and development), Alzheimer's disease, and how the discovery of the structure of DNA prepared the way of biotechnology and gene therapy.