All living things are made of chemical compounds and it is by studying these compounds that we learn about how our bodies and our environment works.
In this week's X-Lab we meet a chemist whose job it is to identify toxic pollutants in the environment, a doctor who is trying to find ways to eliminate malaria and another doctor who has developed a way to see through embryos to study their growth. In the lab the students make a chemical dough.
Making chemical dough with borax