Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue

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http://www.ted.com Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

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  • Just go vegan and live longer. You won't need a new heart. You will have all the heart you need, not just for yourself, but for other lifeforms too.

  • i hope i will live that longer

  • Wow, woman, quit talking to us like we are 3.

  • bit of an awkward final statement, but oh well, she is female after all.

  • Next up for research: cellwelding

  • @Crazee108 what is this "nature" that you speak of?

  • @WiseMonkey888 100? I guess we arnt able to think 50 year into the future.

  • @WiseMonkey888 I only wish I will be around in 100 years.

  • @ShakkIsLife building a house is manipulating the natural environment...any human activity really is...so shame on your comment silly

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