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Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Nina Tandon · TED

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Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts differently, often unpredictably, to standard treatment. Tissue engineer Nina Tandon talks about a possible solution: Using pluripotent stem cells to make personalized models of organs on which to test new drugs and treatments, and storing them on computer chips. (Call it extremely personalized medicine.)

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
Nina Tandon
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Engineering
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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