Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Title:
Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
Speaker:
Nina Tandon
Description:

Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts differently, often unpredictably, to standard treatment. Tissue engineer Nina Tandon talks about a possible solution: Using pluripotent stem cells to make personalized models of organs on which to test new drugs and treatments, and storing them on computer chips. (Call it extremely personalized medicine.)

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
06:19
Format: HTML5
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