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Rebuilding the Heart / Skeletons in the Closet

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Heart disease is on the rise across the country, leaving its victims easily exhausted and susceptible to early death. Rebuilding the Heart enters University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston laboratories, where research specialists labor with adult stem cells to design a cure for failing hearts. Cardiac patients have come here to participate in research trials that may one day save their own — and tens of thousands of others' — lives.

In Skeletons in the Closet, University of North Texas forensic anthropologists reveal laboratory advances designed to prevent anybody from getting away with murder. From small-town crimes in rural Texas to the victims of 9/11 in lower Manhattan, higher education is playing a pivotal role in solving deadly mysteries.

Length: 27 min.

Rating: TV-G