Regenerative Medicine

Best of TEDTalks 2011, #5: Printing a Human Kidney

Anthony Atala | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Kidney Transplant, tedtalks2011, Heart Transplant, #18ideas, Regenerative Medicine, Organ Transplant, Printing Organs, Tedtalks, Heart Disease, Technology News
Anthony Atala

2011-12-20-anthonytetedteddd.jpgTo many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. In truth, it's quickly becoming science fact.

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Anthony Atala On Printing Organs

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Kidney Transplant, tedtalks2011, Heart Transplant, Organ Transplant, Regenerative Medicine, #18ideas, Printing Organs, Tedtalks, Heart Disease, Video, Technology News

jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...

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Cord Blood Banking: Not a Clear-Cut Answer

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Expecting Parents, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Cedars Sinai, Regenerative Medicine, Umbilical-Cord-Blood-Banks, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

No sooner do the blue lines show up on a pregnancy test than expectant parents find themselves bombarded with brochures from companies extolling the benefits of umbilical-cord blood banking.

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"Dr. Frankenstein," Professor Alexander Seifalian, Grows New Organs

Rehema Trimiew | Posted 12.28.2011

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In a laboratory filled with bubbling tanks float body parts in viscous liquids. Beakers ooze, testubes bubble, and amidst them all broods Dr. Frankens...

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Is It Possible To Live To 1,000?

Vicky Collins | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: England, Methuselah, SENS Foundation, Cambridge, Aging, Regenerative Medicine, HDNet World Report, Today Show, Longevity, Nbc, Mountain View, Vicky Collins, Willem Marx, California, Aubrey De Grey, Teletrends, Graceful Aging, Healthy Living News
Vicky Collins

Want to live to be a thousand years old? It's not far-fetched at all if you ask theoretician and geneticist Aubrey de Grey.

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Growing Body Parts From Human Cells: '60 Minutes' Examines Idea (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2011

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Advances in regenerative medicine means it's possible for damaged body parts to be regrown from human cells, and 60 Minutes featured the growing area ...

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Bigger than Anything Else in 2010: The Age of Regenerative Medicine Begins

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Republican Congress, Spinal Cord Injury, Macular Degeneration, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Regenerative Medicine, Technology News
Paul Abrams

Breakthroughs in stem cell research and regenerative medicine will make health care reform even more important than it is now. The human suffering relieved will be incalculable.

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Horses and Stem Cells

Barbara Dehn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Umbilical-Cord-Blood-Banks, Healthy Living News
Barbara Dehn

Researchers are now recommending that owners and breeders of thoroughbreds consider banking the umbilical cord stem cells from prize race horses.

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