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Season 48 Episode 13 - How to Mend a Broken Heart
Dr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend your heart if it stops working. He meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who are pushing the limits of cardiac treatment. We meet a man who has had his heart replaced with an artificial one powered by a mechanical pump he carries around in a rucksack, and witness a scientist bring a dead animal heart back to life on a workbench. Plus, the work of an American scientist who is using stem cells to turn what she calls a 'ghost heart' - the scaffold of a heart - into a replacement heart for humans.
Episodes in Season 48
Back from the Dead
60 min
The Death of the Oceans?
60 min
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
60 min
Is Seeing Believing?
60 min
Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome
60 min
Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
60 min
Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story
60 min
What Is One Degree?
60 min
What Is Reality?
60 min
Science Under Attack
60 min
The Secret World of Pain
60 min
Surviving a Car Crash
60 min
How to Mend a Broken Heart
60 min
Are We Still Evolving?
60 min
Predators in Your Backyard
60 min
