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
Series
Subjects
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc (27)
- Genetic engineering (37)
- Human reproductive technology (14)
Genre
Date of Publication
2013
Database
Alexander Street
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