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CNN Rolls Out New Pioneers Series

Pioneers is a new Digital Studios series that rolls out today across CNN’s digital platforms.  This seven-week series will include original video reporting, articles and photo galleries about the people who are on the cutting edge of science, technology and medicine – making the unimaginable possible and coming up with solutions to impossible problems.  Today’s story focuses on Organoids, lab-grown mini organs that scientists develop from skin cells in order to fight disease without risking human life.

Other topics in the series will include carbon sequestration, making fusion a reality and mining asteroids to create rocket fuel.

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