DNA, the very essence of life, can now be altered. Not only by Harvard geneticists and multi-billion dollar corporations, but also by renegade biohackers working out of their garages.

New developments in the science of gene-editing signal that society is on the verge of a technological breakthrough that could forever change the future of mankind. From disease eradication to trait selection and biohacking, fierce debate swirls over the moral, social and environmental implications of these new groundbreaking experiments. Over the course of this provocative four-part limited series, UNNATURAL SELECTION travels from Mississippi to Italy to New Zealand to Burkina Faso to Ukraine to meet the scientists, hackers, critics, ethicists and beneficiaries of the technologies that defy evolution and have the potential to do the world incredible good or irreparable harm.—Netflix