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The technologies that could transform the way we live in the decades ahead.

Adam Shaw travels the globe to find out how technology might transform the way we live in the decades ahead.

Horizons: People in a Petri

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12/11/2016 GMT

People in a Petri

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Adam Shaw discovers how growing body parts in a lab is becoming increasingly viable.

Adam Shaw goes on a journey to meet the technologists that are at the cutting edge of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

If you need new bone, new tendons, new blood or a new heart in the future you may be able to order one. Scientists are working towards a bio-engineered future where new tissues and new organs could be made to order. It could be possible to grow people in a petri dish. This time on Horizons Adam Shaw goes on a journey to meet the technologists that are at the cutting edge of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He finds out how they're using our own stem cells to grow new body parts in the laboratory and how this science could improve the lives of people, globally.

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