Creating the Crick

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Francis Crick Institute, in the centre of London, is the UK’s brand new, game-changing centre for biology and medical research. Roland Pease joins the scientists as they move into the building. Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate, one of the UK’s top biologists and director of the Crick explains what makes the new institute so special. Professor Richard Treisman, who helped shape its vision, shows Roland how the building is designed to encourage collaboration. And Roland learns how cancer researcher Dr Caroline Hill is packing up and moving her experimental subjects – thousands of fish.

Named for Francis Crick – the British scientist who unravelled the structure of DNA and how it codes the design of the molecules of life – this central London Institute is set to be the heart of British biomedical science – bringing together experts from 3 other world famous institutes, from three of London’s great universities, and from industry.

Picture: Scientists Move Into The Newly-built Francis Crick Institute in King's Cross on August 25, 2016, credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Presenter: Roland Pease Editor: Deborah Cohen

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0:10.0	Well, here it is just across the road from St.Pecra Station next to the British Library looking
0:19.6	like nothing so much as a giant loaf of bread clad in glass and steel.
0:25.0	Well, let's go in. Paul Neur should be waiting for me. It is the Francis Crick Institute, the UK's brand new game-changing
0:38.0	centre for biology and medical research in the centre of London and Paul Nurs Sir Paul nurse, Nobel Laureate,
0:45.2	former president of the Royal Society, one of the UK's top biologists and director of
0:50.7	the Institute and he's about to show me Rowland Pease what makes the
0:54.4	crick so special for this edition of Discovery from the BBC. It's like a
0:59.4	beaming up Scotty thing. It is poor very nice. Welcome, good to meet you. Now we're going to go into sort of
1:04.4	a beam me up Scotty sort of capsule thing which is our security system.
1:08.8	So put this there. Okay, we're going to step in. Now, I'm going to step in.
1:14.0	Now, on the grey square until both doors are closed.
1:18.0	Thank you.
1:19.0	My God, it's like, it's like Fort Knox coming in here.
1:22.0	Well, it is, it's, it's, it's, I don't like that. We're going to change the voice I don't think it's appropriate
1:26.4	But no I'm in the inner sector right so now we're here
1:29.7	domain well our domain and what is a little bit like people make fun of it.
1:34.4	It is a bit like a cathedral.
1:36.2	So what we have here, and you know in the middle of it,
1:38.5	we have a transep, we're standing in the transept,
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