Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs

http://www.ted.com Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from ...) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks through her new research, discovering healing cells in some surprising places.

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[Cyanide1One]

9,085 views compared to JB's 200.000,000 views...Where's this world heading?

[gatzu86]

Stop this moral bullshit about embryonic stemcells. They are just cells like all the billions cells we shed from our skin. Use them and focus on funding that research.

Sam Harris explains a lot more about this moral dilemma in his talks.

[EpicAthiest]

@gatzu86

These religious nutcases are quite annoying aren't they? Of course, this only applies to those who can't see the benefit of stem cell research.

[ghostbustersbl]

thanks for info cools

[donalbl]

cools and power full

[TheMidwestsk8ter]

@Cyanide1One To an econmic collaspe and probabaly nuclear war?

[andreeaweed]

discovering healing cells in some surprising places..i think that the more complicated are the think the more simple is the solution

[xKlondikex]

@formalz The only "moral" issue with stem cells was that they were coming from embryos. What the scientists had to do was to find a way to turn a mature cell back into a stem cell. Now that we can do that, we can do all the stem cell research that we weren't able to do earlier.

[test123ok]

oh my god ..i cannot express how much i respect this woman

[vascularsurgeon]

Engaging speaker but now with a tainted reputation with ongoing investigations over excessively large bills presented to VIP patient from Brunei. Very intelligent, very human, very flawed.

[YoLninYo]

just one question: can this woman get any more solemn and overly dramatic?