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Coffee can help prevent someone from having a heart attack or getting neurological disease or cancer thats going too far. overall what is true is that the study has shown for the first time that affects also verifiable effects could exist. nutrition expert questions ina is a big fan of the beverage both privately and professionally he recommends coffee to patients with diseases of the liver. theres no disputing that caffeine consumption has a strong protective effect when it comes to liver disea...

>> were the kids told anything? >> you said the mom was not told anything. whats going through kids heads? 10 and 16 to be in a foreign country, to have made this journey, and now to be separated frommie parent. i cant even imagine what thats like. >> reporter: the kids told me, they werent explained a things. they were basically put in these cell types with, the cages. where they could see each other. where they could see their mother through there but they were not even told when they would ge...

>> the next thing were going to do is store your stem cells. >> remember those stem cells that i had stored? well, if im ever in need of an organ, they might just come in handy. >> a stem cell has the ability to become many other cell types. a heart cell or a liver cell. >> kidney cells, bladder cells, skin cells, heart cells, lung cells. you name it. >> so one cell becomes a universal donor. >> next step, engineering the body part. in one of dr. atalas latest breakthroughs in organ engineering ...

Take advantage of those future breakthroughs that can keep me alive even longer, maybe even indefinitely. and it turns out the future may be closer than we think. at the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine a team led by dr. anthony atalla is doing something that was once pure fantasy -- growing human body parts right in the lab. >> one of the strategies we use is to take a very small piece of tissue, less than half the size of a postage stamp, you can grow those cells outside the bod...