Name: Caring for engineered tissue
Uploaded: 2011-07-08T00:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 56 s
Description: 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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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.

Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue

Caring for engineered tissue

Nina Tandon illustrates how mirroring the heart's natural environment in the lab, through electrical stimuli, fosters tissue growth.

By engineering heart tissues with micro-patterned channels, Tandon demonstrates life’s ability to thrive with mimicry of capillary beds.

Tandon's work underscores a profound truth: our cells dictate our well-being, mediating every experience and shaping our very existence.