Alan Russell: The potential of regenerative medicine

www.ted.com Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that "speaks the body's language" has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells can rebuild damaged heart muscle, and how cell therapy can regenerate the skin of burned soldiers. This new, low-impact medicine comes just in time, Russell says -- our aging population, with its steeply rising medical bills, will otherwise (and soon) cause a crisis in health care systems around the world. Some graphic medical imagery.

[@zv77rus]

five years have passed and we still don't have this yet

[@NobodyInTraining]

This guy is really cool...

[@ZackaryMusgrove]

Yes please, that would be an outstanding bit of information.

[@SCUBONZIES]

yeah for soldiers

[@Aleczacool]

@sreeshankarlal1 No, because they've already spent the money manufacturing and distributing the equipment.

[@kurtilein3]

great video :) but what about the bans on stem cell research and the religious fundamentalists behind this? he should have said something about it in his talk.

[@charleskidney4279]

12 years ago. Still nothing in regenerative medicine in a clinical setting. Science is slow

[@MaxSafeheaD]

what a great project. ..

[@DeletedDelusion]

This is realy excellent stuff.

[@kurtilein3]

why is this video gone? and where did it go?

[@Mjhavok]

Indeed.

[@Mjhavok]

I am from and live in Scotland.

[@BackyardDiscovery]

Someday we will grow new body parts...

[@derman077]

Here, Let me fix this for you. It is a simple concept. Instead of saying WHY CAN'T, instead say HOW CAN. There, I hope that helps.

[@Mjhavok]

Agreed.

[@Misana]

8:49 WOW.

[@allnaturalsingh6705]

im on the side of stem cells, but my friend a lot of ethical issues that arise in medicine are NOT religiously motivated. Religion isnt the only thing that is against Stem Cell Research, the idea of allowing a living organism, or cells to go through testing&research, and its benefits to the rest of the world, is not digestible to SOME people. Some people Dont want to donate their organs after passing away, i think everyone SHOULD, but the point is RELIGION has nothing to do with that decision.

[@artisteo]

Can't wait till I become a doctor.

[@independentmissile200]

Did you ever become a doctor?

[@artisteo]

@@independentmissile200 1.5 years left!

[@independentmissile200]

@@artisteo no way? That’s so cool. I was not expecting a reply

[@artisteo]

@@independentmissile200 my high school past self thought it would be a clean 8 years after high school, but life has so many twist and turns, i wouldn’t change thing though its not the destination but the journey that matters ✌️

[@lordmetroid]

If the speaker would know that government funding isn't what the people in need for treatement needs he would realize that spending government money to solve a problem will not help. Instead deregulate and eliminate taxation on areas and you will see growth like no other country has. The only problem with this is that the government goons want get their money and they really really don't find that appealing.

[@beriukay]

Yeah, where'd the movie go?

[@squamish4244]

Now we have synthetic blood, 3-D organ printing and can restore limited function to paralytics. Both the United States and the EU launched massive efforts last year to map the brain. And so much more. God knows where we will be in 30 years but it will doubtless be extraordinary.

[@wasdwasdedsf]

oh, when did he win?

[@boorens18]

I would think that a fetus becomes a "person" when brain activity starts, or just before the third trimester (about 25 weeks in). After all, it is our unique thought and creativity that we associate with our uniqueness compared to everything else right? Even religiously motivated people can relate to this and assume that this could be a representation of our "soul" So I figure that after 25 weeks its a bit late to consider abortion.

[@derman077]

p.s., If they full scale tissue regen then it would negatively affect cyborg research. True story.

[@Elvenass]

not everything?

[@Nuclearcx]

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE VIDEO?!

[@Mjhavok]

@kjbhlogkh Once again you demonstrate your sound scientific knowledge.

[@kurtilein3]

strange3141: what purpose do those irrational religious beliefs have? like, this belief in souls? if such a belief has NO positive effect, but when it has the negative effects that otherwise rational people go nuts when you criticize it, and that it makes stem cell research difficult, then we need to get rid of those beliefs, educate those misconceptions out of the people, to make progress in stem cell research easier. what point? maybe AFTER its brain is bigger than that of a fly?

[@csNeCrO]

9GAG ARMY !!

[@MegaFarinato]

omg they want another remake of the Spiderman movies

[@Galacticmaster]

cant wait for the first bio-wars

[@Mjhavok]

@kjbhlogkh You can't read. I said it would have been better if Gore had won. All American president are horrific but I think Gore would have been less awful than Bush. What you know about science I could fit in a thimble. Thanks for responding to something I wrote over 2 years ago.

[@MrBloody32]

It's sponsored by BMW.

[@Mjhavok]

@kjbhlogkh LOL

[@Gnomefro]

When you are making claims about nature, you'd better be prepared to back them up or be laughed at. You have no reason to believe in souls. You have no idea what a soul is, and finally, you have no reason to believe anything related to souls happens at conception. Why should I "respect" your unfounded assertion? This is not a question of "intolerance", but about you being unable to back up your claims.

[@randymarsh1729]

does anyone have any updates or know where this genius is now ?!?! did the evangelists ruin and boycott stem cell research?