TED Talks

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12:38

Tom Oxley

A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text

Posted Jun 2022

18:00

Melissa J. Moore

How mRNA medicine will change the world

Posted Apr 2022

6:50

Lei Li

The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging

Posted Feb 2022

2:57

Mona Chalabi

How did we get fertility so wrong?

Posted Nov 2021

2:41

Mona Chalabi

Do 9 out of 10 dentists really recommend that toothpaste?

Posted Oct 2021

5:40

Jenna C. Lester

Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones

Posted Oct 2021

4:04

Kayla Mandel Sheets

You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think)

Posted Sep 2021

5:59

Alicia Chong Rodriguez

A smart bra for better heart health

Posted Sep 2021

4:48

Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly

Posted Aug 2021

12:41

Kathryn A. Whitehead

The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine

Posted Aug 2021

24:50

Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution

Posted Aug 2021

5:07

Susan M. Reverby

Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment

Posted Jun 2021

5:19

Aaron Morris

How your body could become its own diagnostic lab

Posted Jun 2021

14:52

Daniel Kraft

How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine

Posted May 2021

14:19

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines

Posted Apr 2021

7:27

Andrew Pelling

Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus?

Posted Nov 2020

10:46

Johanna Benesty

What it takes to crush a pandemic

Posted Nov 2020

5:17

Christian Moro

Why do you get a fever when you're sick?

Posted Nov 2020

16:50

Erika Cheung

Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power

Posted Nov 2020

20:59

Leor Weinberger

Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

Posted Oct 2020

13:13

Yasmin Hurd

Could CBD help opioid users overcome addiction?

Posted Oct 2020

5:25

TED-Ed

The surprising effects of pregnancy

Posted Oct 2020

14:09

Frederick Streeter Barrett

The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia

Posted Oct 2020

4:57

Hyunsoo Joshua No

Performing brain surgery without a scalpel

Posted Sep 2020

30:15

David Brenner

Can light stop the coronavirus?

Posted Jul 2020

43:07

Bill Gates

How the pandemic will shape the near future

Posted Jul 2020

23:32

Jerome Kim

The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine

Posted Jun 2020

11:44

Ofer Levy

The new science of personalized vaccines

Posted Jun 2020

5:11

Anees Bahji

Can steroids save your life?

Posted Jun 2020

5:32

Dan Kwartler

How fast can a vaccine be made?

Posted Jun 2020

5:21

Alex Gendler

How do ventilators work?

Posted May 2020

4:44

Cella Wright

How do you know if you have a virus?

Posted May 2020

5:54

Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi

A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic

Posted May 2020

7:15

Jim Collins

How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics

Posted May 2020

46:43

Esther Choo

How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

Posted Apr 2020

1h 0m

Matt Walker

Why sleep matters now more than ever

Posted Apr 2020