For many years the umbilical cord and placenta were seen as medical waste. But now their life-saving potential has caused a sensation throught the medical community. Cord blood is rich in stem cells, which can replace defective blood. Thid film follows the patients whose lives have been saved by the cord blood of donor babies.

Ocean in every 100,000 births, parents and doctors are presented with one of natures greatest challenges. Twins are born, to joined together. What causes twins to be born this way? What can Doctors do to help them? And what are the prospects for spend their lives joined together? This documentary, filmed in the USA, South Africa, Russia and Poland, tells the story of some of the most dramatic recent separations of conjoined twin babies - and interviews adult twins who remained conjoined.