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Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Horizon: 2010-2011

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Horizon: 2010-2011: Episode 13: How to Mend a Broken Heart

How to Mend a Broken Heart

Episode 13

Episode 13: How to Mend a Broken Heart

2010-2011

BBC Two - Horizon, 2010-2011, How to Mend a Broken Heart

Dr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend the human heart.

Science series. Dr Kevin Fong meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who are pushing the limits of cardiac treatment.

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.

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Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

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