Finding The Parts
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Part Two. Stealing organs, as Victor Frankenstein did, is one way of going about things, but perhaps it’s safer and more legal to grow them instead… Phil’s quest takes him to speak to Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about the advances in human organ growth and asks him about the generation and regeneration of our body’s tissues and parts. Thanks to Philip Ball for original music and www.Freesound.org for supplying sound effects
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