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People in a Petri

Adam Shaw goes on a journey to meet the technologists that are at the cutting edge of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

If you need new bone, new tendons, new blood or a new heart in the future you may be able to order one. Scientists are working towards a bio-engineered future where new tissues and new organs could be made to order. It could be possible to grow people in a petri dish. This time on Horizons Adam Shaw goes on a journey to meet the technologists that are at the cutting edge of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He finds out how they're using our own stem cells to grow new body parts in the laboratory and how this science could improve the lives of people, globally.

30 minutes

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Tue 15 Nov 2016 10:30GMT

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