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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 fro...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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Sydney, New South Wales :
ABC Commercial,
2013.
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| Series: | Quantum
VAST: academic video online |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 10, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (28 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:28:27 |