Dr Atala

Oprah and Dr Oz Discuss Regenerative Medicine

March 20, 2012

Dr Oz visits a regenerative medicine laboratory of Dr Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest’s Regenerative Medicine program and discusses the possibilities with Oprah Winfrey.

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The Lab Growing New Organs

August 30, 2011

Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human tissue. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake [...]

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What is Regenerative Medicine?

April 15, 2011

The next frontier is regenerative medicine. Growing human body parts, essentially from scratch. It’s already happening. Skin. Bladder. More or less “printed” out, layer by layer, with cells blown through an inkjet printer.  The great hope is creating and replacing body parts on demand. The U.S. military is all over it. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative [...]

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