# Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Nina Tandon
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Engineering
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/nina_tandon_could_tissue_engineering_mean_personalized_medicine)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.)

## Lectures

1. [Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/nina_tandon_could_tissue_engineering_mean_personalized_medicine/f4bb3208044f), 6 min (TED's player)