Animal Farm

From Mouse to Man (1x2)

: 26, 2007

From Mouse to Man focuses on techniques in genetic manipulation that stand to directly benefit our health. Among the animal line-up are sheep that are used to grow human organs for transplants and plasma cows that could solve the threat of bioterrorism. The film also looks at a product called MySkin, a new tissue engineering technique that takes a small sample of human skin and encourages the cells within it to multiply and produce new skin. The technique is already being used to treat people who have suffered serious burns, but, as co-presenters Giles and Olivia discover, it could have a future use in growing whole body parts.