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Secrets of a Cell Engineer

September 7, 2011

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells — techniques she’s developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

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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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Will Regenerative Medicine Replace Organ Harvesting?

August 2, 2011

Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from …) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks her passionate story through her new research, discovering healing [...]

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