Spare parts

Description

Imagine this. On a picnic with friends you suffer a heart attack. By the time you reach hospital most of your heart is no longer working. The doctor takes some of your skin cells and orders a replacement heart from the tissue-engineering unit and just three weeks later you have a new heart built from living cells that precisely match your own genetic profile. This provocative program visits the American laboratories that are taking medicine and ethics into uncharted waters.

Runtime

28 min

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Date of Publication

2013

Database

Alexander Street

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