How To Build a Beating Heart

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This program offers a tantalizing glimpse of a future where body parts are grown for you from your own cells - a future where the line between healing and rejuvenation will blur and where massive injuries, once tragic, will be considered reversible events. In the process, we may even find new ways to foil death. We'll go inside the lab, inside the cells, and into the brilliant minds and operating rooms of doctors to witness one of the first people to be living with a lab-grown organ. Through a combination of time-lapse photography, unique macro perspectives, CGI and interviews both with doctors and patients, you'll see lab-grown organs such as: hearts, ears, fingers, legs, livers, bladders, arms, eyes, and skin. If we can grow the parts we need, inside and outside the body, it will mean a radical change in the experience of being human.