In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial -- only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.
乔伊·金,拉弗恩·考克斯,蔡斯·斯托克斯,吉莲·默瑞,布芮妮·邱,凯斯·鲍尔斯,Kevin Miles,Robert Palmer Watkins,凯莉·盖尔,Jan Luis Castellanos,查明·李,Lindsay Rootare,安杰丽卡·波波洛娃,John Castle,萨马尼·怀尔德,Alex D. Jennings,Dutch Johnson,Cole Micek,Quintin Mims,Jason Parks
简介:In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial -- only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.