The Future of Medicine
Description
Health care is perhaps the area most impacted by technology. This film explores the research into cultivated organs to alleviate the shortage of organ donors and new methods of breast cancer surgery that is less invasive and deforming. See how the mutation of a certain gene makes some humans immune to cardiovascular disease and how researchers are trying to find a way to bring that mutation to all of us. Contains nudity associated with breast implants.
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25 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2005
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