Surgeons are about to cross the species barrier.
Heralded as the biggest medical breakthrough of the new millennium, some of the largest pharmaceutical companies are setting up animal organ farms to harvest live cells and whole organs from pigs to be used as spare parts for humans. Narrated by Martin Bashir, the series goes inside this secret world, never before seen, where the quest to develop modified pig organs for transplantation is already underway. This programme goes inside the secret organ farm on the grounds of a hospital in North America, just yards away from a human transplant unit. Within this bio-secure and sterile world viewers will witness the amazing birth, life and organ harvest cycle of the transgenic pig. In clinical trials already quietly underway - live pig cells and tissues are being transplanted into people.