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