Ο ΄Αντονι Ατάλα για τη δημιουργία νέων οργάνων.
About this talk
To πιο σύγχρονο εργαστήριο του Άντονι Ατάλα δημιουργεί ανθρώπινα όργανα -- από μύες μέχρι αιμοφόρα αγγεία, κύστες και άλλα.Στο ΤEDMED,δείχνει ένα βίντεο των βιο-μηχανικών του που δουλεύουν σε μερικές επιστημονικής φαντασίας μικροσυσκευές,συμπεριλαμβανομένου ενός βιολογικού αντιδραστήρα που μοιάζει με φούρνο(προθέρμανση στους 98.6 F) και μιας μηχανής η οποία "τυπώνει"ανθρώπινο ιστό.
About Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that -- engineering tissues and whole organs (bladders and, soon, kidneys) using smart bio-materials and cutting-edge techniques.Why you should listen to him:
Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where his work focuses on growing and regenerating tissues and organs. His team engineered the first lab-grown organ to be implanted into a human -- a bladder -- and is developing experimental fabrication technology that can "print" human tissue on demand.
In 2007, Atala and a team of Harvard University researchers showed that stem cells can be harvested from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women. This and other breakthroughs in the development of smart bio-materials and tissue fabrication technology promises to revolutionize the practice of medicine.
"Anthony Atala bakes things that will make you feel good inside, but we're not talking cakes and muffins."PBS
