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Be sure to see the episode "Fix me"
From the BBC series "Horizon" (December 2009)
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Dean Third, who has a congenital heart problem called Dilated Cardiomyopathy, examines a beating rat heart made in a lab with the use of stem cells.
Anthony Bath, on the right, meets Shylo Harris, who was wounded by an explosive device in Iraq. Shylo is the first subject in an experiment by the US military to re-grow missing fingers.
Sophie Morgan, who has a spinal cord injury, visited the Reeve-Irvine Centre in California, to discover if a breakthrough in the use of embryonic stem cells will mean that she might be able to walk again in the future.
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