Episode
Through the Wormhole: Can We Cheat Death?
Overview
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?
Details
- Series
- Through the Wormhole
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2017-05-02
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Can We Cheat Death? is Episode 2 in Season 8 of Through the Wormhole. It aired on 2017-05-02. The runtime is 44 min.
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