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How to Live Longer : The Big Think
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We can now cure disease, replace failing body parts and even engineer our health on a genetic level. So are illness and death really inevitable, or can they be overcome? It’s a question Nobel Prize...
We can now cure disease, replace failing body parts and even engineer our health on a genetic level. So are illness and death really inevitable, or can they be overcome? It’s a question Nobel Prize-winning biologist Paul Nurse has explored through his own research. Scientific breakthroughs across the world are opening up exciting possibilities. But new technologies that extend life raise complex ethical conundrums. Even if we could eradicate death and disease, should we?
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- BBC
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- English
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- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [2017]
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017
- ©2017
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 54 sec)) : sound, color
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- Originally released by BBC, 2017.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 11, 2017.
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- Closed-captioned.
- How to Live Longer: The Big Think— Introduction (2:07); Living Longer (2:25); Can We Fix Our Faulty Genes? (6:21); Healthy Gene Into a Cell (3:38); Clinical Trials (3:42); Modifying Human Embryos (2:55); Can We Regenerate Ourselves? (4:15); Ethical Issues (3:48); Growing Dopamine Cells in the Lab (5:25); Can We Create New Organs in the Lab? (4:54); Building an Artificial Heart (3:40); Can We Overcome the Aging Process? (5:42); Credits: How to Live Longer: The Big Think (0:32)