Can We Cheat Death?
Through the Wormhole · Season 8 · Episode 2
Scientists are peering inside the mechanisms of aging, tampering with the cellular makeup of our DNA, and imagining a world where death is cured like a disease. Are we entering a new age of immortality? Or is dying necessary for our race's survival?
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Season
8
Episode
2
Air Date
02/May/2017
Air Time
22:00
Runtime
44 min
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Scientists are peering inside the mechanisms of aging, tampering with the cellular makeup of our DNA, and imagining a world where death is cured like a disease. Are we entering a new age of immortality? Or is dying necessary for our race's survival?
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