For a technical but really good discussion of how difficult it is to develop new drugs, have a read of “jargon will save us all “at In the Pipeline. I wrote a post awhile back about what we don’t know about breast cancer.

I’m not a biologist, actually a software developer, and this series gave an insight into how the cell unit plays its part in the community of an organism, using DNA based triggers specific to it on the DNA instructions template to be found in it’s nucleus to build the proteins relevant to it’s chanced upon role.

The problem with most science programs like this is often that they tell you something about what we often already know but don’t indicate where we are now – what we don’t know & what we’re trying to find out at the moment.

Other problems are that the programs don’t go into enough depth assuming the viewer isn’t ready to understand the content which is rather patronising of the UK population as a whole & is a mistake.

The above were not a problem with this mini series – I wish there was more like it at this level of detail and expertise on BBC TV on other scientific topics.