Link to Panorama: Stem cells and miracles documentary
Documentary Description
When it comes to stem cells, mainstream scientists in the UK and America tell us their potential is both exciting and unlimited.
But, they hasten to add, treatments for most illnesses are still years away and more research needs to happen.
But that caveat is not stopping British families from raising thousands of pounds in their communities in a bid to travel to foreign clinics to seek treatments promising relief for everything from blindness to degenerative multiple sclerosis.
In Stem Cells and Miracles, the Panorama team meets the Clarke family of Newtonabbey in Northern Ireland. The Clarke's three-year-old daughter, Dakota, was born with septo-optic dysplasia, in which part of her brain and her optic nerve did not develop, leaving her almost blind and suffering with balance issues.