Last hope clinic.

Stem cell transplants offer the prospect of 'science fiction-like' treatments for genetic disorders. The cells are harvested from fertilised embryos and aborted foetuses, and because of these ethical issues leading researchers in America have had their funding cut by the Bush government, forcing sufferers to head to Eastern Europe where treatment is more readily available. This World follows Stefano Tricarico - a 20-year-old from Italy with terminal muscular dystrophy, and other patients - to the Ukraine to see if transplanted foetal stem-cells injections really can help save or improve his, and other people's lives. The $25,000 treatment is offered by Ukrainian doctor, Alexander Smokodub, at a private clinic. But critics say the work has not been properly scientifically tested. Is this the future of science, or a fraud?