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From the Ted Talk by Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue
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But that brings me to lesson number two: clles do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an ieidntty crisis here, because structural engineers build bridges and big things, computer engineers, computers, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's rinemd ourselves that cells are not an abstract cencopt. Let's remember that our cells sustain our levis in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also worth noting that cells also miadtee our experience of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we exnapd our sense of environmental stewardship to include the eceosstym of our own boides?
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But that brings me to lesson number two: _____ do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an ________ crisis here, because structural engineers build bridges and big things, computer engineers, computers, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's ______ ourselves that cells are not an abstract _______. Let's remember that our cells sustain our _____ in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also worth noting that cells also _______ our experience of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we ______ our sense of environmental stewardship to include the _________ of our own ______?
Solution
- identity
- expand
- cells
- mediate
- ecosystem
- remind
- lives
- bodies
- concept
Original Text
But that brings me to lesson number two: cells do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an identity crisis here, because structural engineers build bridges and big things, computer engineers, computers, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's remind ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept. Let's remember that our cells sustain our lives in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also worth noting that cells also mediate our experience of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we expand our sense of environmental stewardship to include the ecosystem of our own bodies?
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