The film also touches on a few of the ethical violations that came from these discoveries.

The
eugenics movement — in both Nazi Germany and the United States in the early 20th century —
as well as the story of the first person to die in a clinical trial for gene therapy, in 1999, cast a
morbid shadow on the narrative.

The Gene
April 7 and 14
PBS

Interwoven into this timeline are personal stories from people who suffer from genetic diseases.
These vignettes help viewers grasp the hope new advances can give patients as experts
continue to wrangle with DNA in efforts to make those cures.