Science: biotechnology kidney medicine organ donor TED transplant
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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 …
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 !
