Printing a Human Kidney

TED: Anthony Atala – Printing a Human Kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem:
A 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney.
Using similar technology, a young patient of Dr. Atala received an engineered bladder 10 years ago !

Watch the video here.

This Is Your Life …

… do what you love and do it often.

If you don’t like something, change it.

If you don’t like your job, quit.

If you don’t have enough time …

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Medicine’s Future

TED: Daniel Kraft – Medicine’s Future

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and applications that bring diagnostic information right to the patient’s bedside.

Watch the video here.

Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

by Baz Luhrmann. Watch the original video here. For the story behind the … sunscreen, you can read here.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of ’99,

Wear Sunscreen!
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, “sunscreen” would be it.
A long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now !

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Right and Wrong

When Bankei held his seclusion-meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of this gatherings, a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case …

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The Thief Who Became a Disciple

One evening as Shichiri Kojun was reciting sutras, a thief with a sharp sword entered demanding either his money or his life.

Shichiri told him: “Do not disturb me. You can find the money in that drawer.” Then he resumed his recitation. A little while afterwards he stopped and called …

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