I Looked In the Microscope and Saw the Future

S1 E1: Ryan, a teenager who just became a quadriplegic. Steve, a father with brain cancer. Rosie, a mother who is blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Cheryl, whose lymphoma has spread to her breast and both lungs. Andrew, who is HIV-positive. And Ava, born without an immune system. These patients all hope for cures from the first generation of FDA-approved clinical trials for stem cell, CAR-T cell, and antibody therapies. For the first time in history there are cures for many diseases, some of which previously there weren’t even any treatments for.