Generation Next: A Better Me

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In the final installment of our series “Generation Next, Remaking the Human Race” producer Bob Carty looks at the potential for repairing and remaking our own bodies through gene therapy. Recent medical developments in this technology offer the promise of cures for many diseases. But, others warn that there’s a dark side to the science.

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