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From the Ted Talk by Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

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One of the key technologies that's really important is what's called iedcnud pluripotent stem cells. They were developed in jpaan prtety recently. Okay, induced pluripotent stem cells. They're a lot like eynboirmc stem cells except without the cstnrvooery. We icnude cells, okay, say, skin cells, by adding a few genes to them, culturing them, and then harvesting them. So they're skin cells that can be tricked, kind of like cellular amnesia, into an embryonic state. So without the controversy, that's cool thing number one. Cool thing nebmur two, you can grow any type of tissue out of them: brain, heart, levir, you get the picture, but out of your cells. So we can make a model of your heart, your brain on a chip.

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One of the key technologies that's really important is what's called _______ pluripotent stem cells. They were developed in _____ ______ recently. Okay, induced pluripotent stem cells. They're a lot like _________ stem cells except without the ___________. We ______ cells, okay, say, skin cells, by adding a few genes to them, culturing them, and then harvesting them. So they're skin cells that can be tricked, kind of like cellular amnesia, into an embryonic state. So without the controversy, that's cool thing number one. Cool thing ______ two, you can grow any type of tissue out of them: brain, heart, _____, you get the picture, but out of your cells. So we can make a model of your heart, your brain on a chip.

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One of the key technologies that's really important is what's called induced pluripotent stem cells. They were developed in Japan pretty recently. Okay, induced pluripotent stem cells. They're a lot like embryonic stem cells except without the controversy. We induce cells, okay, say, skin cells, by adding a few genes to them, culturing them, and then harvesting them. So they're skin cells that can be tricked, kind of like cellular amnesia, into an embryonic state. So without the controversy, that's cool thing number one. Cool thing number two, you can grow any type of tissue out of them: brain, heart, liver, you get the picture, but out of your cells. So we can make a model of your heart, your brain on a chip.

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