Biomedicine and Biotechnology : VIDEO, In the era of Big Pharma, why are researchers looking more and more to nature—and the human body itself—to provide tomorrow’s medical cures? This program illustrates how scientists are growing and harvesting pharmaceuticals from common plants and farm animals, attempting to replicate organs, and transferring much-needed islet cells to patients with diabetes. The next big breakthrough in medical care is as likely to come from a rainforest or a goat as it is from a petri dish or a test tube.

Biomedicine and Biotechnology

In the era of Big Pharma, why are researchers looking more and more to nature—and the human body itself—to provide tomorrow’s medical cures? This program illustrates how scientists are growing and harvesting pharmaceuticals from common plants and farm animals, attempting to replicate organs, and transferring much-needed islet cells to patients with diabetes. The next big breakthrough in medical care is as likely to come from a rainforest or a goat as it is from a petri dish or a test tube. (47 minutes)

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