2016

S1.E1 ∙ The Promise of Gene Therapy

Sun, Aug 14, 2016

When doctors told Karen there was no cure for her daughter's brain disease, she took matters into her own hands. With no scientific background, she created a gene therapy business that can fix the faulty genes in patients like her daughter. Now she's racing against the clock to extend her daughter's life and improve the lives of others.

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S1.E2 ∙ Open Sourcing the Brain

Sun, Aug 21, 2016

OpenBCI has developed an accessible 3D-printed headset for our brains to interact with software that opens our mind to the possibilities in that cerebral frontier. Want to measure the effect of meditation on your brain? It's possible. Want to control a prosthetic limb with your mind? We're at a point in time where the potential for harnessing the brain's cognitive abilities is only limited by our imagination.

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S1.E3 ∙ The Real Bionic Man

Mon, Aug 29, 2016

After losing part of his arm to cancer, doctors outfit Johnny, a self-described "hillbilly" from West Virginia, with one of the world's most advanced robotic arms. Johnny is able to control his new arm with his mind, giving him a level of motor control impossible until now.

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S1.E4 ∙ Walking 2.0

Sun, Sep 04, 2016

After a construction site accident, Robert Woo was paralyzed from the chest down. Woo spent the next four years in a wheelchair. But even as he learned how to live his new life, he couldn't stop asking one very simple question: How could humans build skyscrapers, but not something better than a wheelchair? Then Woo heard about bionic exoskeletons. And it changed his life.

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S1.E5 ∙ Reversing Blindness

Sun, Sep 11, 2016

Vanna started to notice a change in her vision. Six months later, she was legally blind. But Vanna never lost hope, and enrolled in an experimental clinical trial. Her doctors injected stem cells from her hip into her optic nerve. Afterwards, she started to regain her vision. Amazingly, Vanna can now see. This is the story of reversing blindness.

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S1.E6 ∙ Fighting for Independence

Sun, Sep 18, 2016

A roadside bomb in Iraq left Jerral paralyzed and without his left arm. But rather than letting his injuries define him, Jerral is fighting back. He's working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins to test the most advanced prosthetic arm in the world that could help Jerral and many other wounded vets like him take back their independence.

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