How to grow body parts in the lab
Shulamit Levenberg |
TEDxTelAviv
• April 2019
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In this presentation, we will embark on an enthralling trip to the future. Into medicine's future.
Professor Shulamit Levenberg, the Dean of the Technion’s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, heads a lab which prints live 3D tissues. Her bustling team engineers tissues with vital blood vessels that can then become incorporated into a living organ within the body.
This revolutionary strategy lays down the stepping stones toward a future which will enable creation of 'replacement parts' for the human body.
Just imagine what lab-grown tissues will offer patients with a dysfunctional heart or injured spinal cord.
Well, it is no longer imaginary.