Making Stem Cells from Skin | Leah Foltz | TEDxSantaBarbara

Have you ever wondered how stem cells work? Let's explore the past two decades of scientific breakthroughs and what researchers are doing now. Learn about how making stem cells from skin is allowing us to study degenerative diseases in a whole new way. Leah earned her BS degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at UC Santa Barbara and is currently pursuing her PhD in biomolecular science and engineering also at UCSB. She is currently studying the cellular mechanisms of an inherited blinding disease that affects teenagers and young adults
As an undergraduate researcher and Worster Award recipient, she performed genetic analysis of frogs. She completed her BS with distinction in the major and was the student speaker at the 2013 UCSB life sciences commencement ceremony.
Leah is a Garland Scholar, Crossroads Fellow, recipient of the Breaux Fellowship, and recently won the UCSB Grad Slam Grand Prize for the best 3-minute talk. She then went on in May of 2017 to win people’s choice at the UC-wide Grad Slam competition. She is a member of the Women in Science and Engineering club at UCSB and is the teaching assistant for stem cell biology, where she teaches undergraduates how to present research in an understandable and concise format. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@sterlingwood16]

honestly inspiring on a real note

[@aymanyaseen3235]

Great, please complete that great work

[@luissolano797]

I want to invest trillions of dollars in stem cell research

[@joedart8449]

Great job. Well organized and clear.

[@Waltyworld]

Nice I’m gonna try

[@saganmcvander636]

I like the part where she said what she wanted to be when she grew up as a child, laughed at herself, and nobody else laughed with her.

[@woloabel]

(On Sunday January 22, 2023). PhD Leah Foltz, a Genetics or Biologist at Least, is herein Exemplifying the wonderous and speculative Nature of Current Notions of Science (using the Promising Topic of Stem Cells and Reconfiguration therein). But least of all, she does not even allude to the Appropriation of Collective Scientific Work For Individual (Corporate or Actual Mummy) Purpose and Gain. The Gist of all this Fanfare of Investigation and Research has been essentially a Collective, Communal Effort (albeit by a highly identifiable group, class and even race), a synergistic and rather nice work of symbiosis, and thereafter any Profit-making, which in the last few years has mounted to the Trillions, has been completely appropriated (or if you will amassed by the particular group) by a dubious, scheming criminal-enterprise-Guided Collectivity (might as well be the Mafia). Having said this and for this to be actually beneficial, which is undoubtedly useful in many aspects (applications of the science like the pure science itself) for the beneficence of all of society, would have to not be thieved or be understood as Collective Property of Which any Devesting or Commercialization Thereof should entail just and/or participatory benefit at once. Otherwise, these so-called scientists are the epitome of thievery. Not even the Nazis (albeit a rather fictional protrayal) had such argumentation and will to Make Gain from that which the Nation as a Whole Created. Nor the Bolsheviks (Modern Day Russians are a Complete Metamorphe of), nor the Moaists (Modern- Day China is far from), nor anybody with even a Sense of Justice. And these aforementioned Parties but in particular the Firsts can be single-handedly identified as Central Pillars of so-called modern-Day Science. ...Demand better and Stop the Killing. Heil!

[@handicappuccino8491]

I’m so glad that the date is over because I would not get along with someone who was against embryonic stem cells if that was still a thing and my aunt anche Was one of those people so I’m glad it’s over so I can actually talk to her

[@thanveerahamed506]

Why so many dislikes?? She really gives us hope! And the part she wants to be a president is just for fun!

[@sterlingwood16]

if only they could see this...

[@azzamjaber7014]

Amazing awesome talk.. thanks..

[@mmyepes]

Grandiosa

[@HopeOfJoe]

The first half of this talk is really old news ... the skin made stem cells. Adipose and cord blood stem cells are being used back to 2000 and fixing degenerative disease right now. The last half of the talk seemed better. It would seem that scientists should be talking with each other

[@joedart8449]

Richard Richard. Ted talks are designed for people to 'spread the word' about ideas and technologies that are in progress. They were not using crispr in 2000 I can assure you of that. It wasn't discovered/redesigned until 2011. And Yamanaka (who uncovered the four factors to regress cells) did his stem cell work in 2006. Her point was that we have moved from controversial embryonic stem cells to induced pluripotent stem cells. Then it took time to get these inventions into the research stream in areas like Macular Degeneration. It wouldn't make sense if she did not give some basic historical perspective. I think she approached it in a perfectly logical way.

[@tracylynn1461]

@@joedart8449 before CRISPR was ELISA...

[@Will-hs2rp]

I want you to be presented of the United States your so nice😍😍😍

[@safetyleednkom8274]

This is so promising for those who has diabetes both type 1 and type 2.. I can't wait for this to cure me.. In god wills

[@farhioabdalla6353]

these scientist are working ever day and being as transparent as they can be. you cab see the passion in this women's eyes to and all you can say is "in gods will" ?? no. this is not god just saying "end this" this scientist working hard. ALL credit goes to them.

[@anthonycarney7849]

I have seen on the network how stem cell can help people like me who had a stroke but there’s no roll out is it because most people who have a stroke are in there 50es we r worth saving a stroke leaves u a prisoner in a broken body it a 100%cureli have been fighting a mojor stroke for 8 years I have tried dead more afo and they are not the problem it’s us ours bodies get out of line Anthony

[@ssphfdrc]

im distracted with the way she breathes. was she nervous or something?

[@DanKirchner5150]

now make skin cells from stems

[@joedart8449]

I can and will be done. If you spend some time to get lab training, you can help us do that.