Understanding All Disease: The Promise of Stem Cell Research

How can embryonic stem cells develop into any of the myriad specialized cells in our bodies? Efforts to answer this question could lead to treatments of unprecedented effectiveness for a wide variety of diseases.

Interviewees from the  Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research:
⊳ Rudolf Jaenisch, Founding Member
⊳ Richard A. Young, Founding Member
Additional interviewee: Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief, Technology Review

2006

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.