Horizon · SEASON 48
How to Mend a Broken Heart
Episode 13 · 2011-02-14
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
60 minutes
Season 48 episodes
1. Back from the Dead2010-09-27
2. The Death of the Oceans?2010-10-04
3. What Happened Before the Big Bang?2011-10-11
4. Is Seeing Believing?2010-10-18
5. Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome2010-10-25
6. Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly2010-11-03
7. Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story2010-11-16
8. What Is One Degree?2011-01-10
9. What Is Reality?2011-01-17
10. Science Under Attack2011-01-24
11. The Secret World of Pain2011-01-31
12. Surviving a Car Crash2011-02-07
13. How to Mend a Broken Heart2011-02-14
14. Are We Still Evolving?2011-03-01
15. Predators in Your Backyard2011-03-08
