ReGenesis Season One (2005)

Episode 1 - Baby Bomb

Is it possible to engineer the “mind” of Ebola virus into the “body” of camelpox virus to cause human infection?


Episode 2 - Spare Parts

Is it possible to use siRNA to prevent viral infection?


Episode 3 - The Face of God

Is it possible to clone a person?
Is it probable to generate a “savior sibling” to save a dying child?


Episode 4 - Prions

Is it possible to catch prion disease from chickens?
Is it probable to engineer chickens to make human prions?


Episode 5 - The Oldest Virus

Is it possible for human growth hormone (hGH) to cause death?
Is it probable to use gene therapy to make a human body produce extra growth hormone?


Episode 6 - The Trials

Is it possible to use gene therapy to treat leukemia?
Is it likely that gene therapy clinical trials would kill patients?


Episode 7 - Faint Hope

Is it possible to be infected with HIV but not develop AIDS?
Is it probable to develop stem cell therapy from long-term nonprogressors?


Episode 8 - Blackout

Is it possible for bacteria to live off of metal and eat plastic?
Is it probable to use plastic-eating bacteria to get rid of waste?


Episode 9 - The Secret War

Is it possible that spending time in Iraq can make a person sick?
Is it probable that these wide-ranging symptoms are caused by stress?


Episode 10 - The Source

Is it possible that bacteriophage can transfer genes from bacteria to bacteria?
Is it probable that mosquitoes can cause uncontrolled bleeding in humans?


Episode 11 - The Promise

Is it possible that a person’s own immune cells can kill him/her?
Is it probable that Marburg virus could be weaponized?


Episode 12 - Resurrection

Is it possible that the Spanish Flu can “survive” in permafrost?
Is it probable to catch the Spanish flu from a dead frozen body?


Episode 13 - The Longest Night

Is it possible that avian flu can combine with Spanish Flu?
Is it probable to stave off a new flu epidemic with drug treatment?