full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Anthony Atala: Growing new organs

Unscramble the Blue Letters

For the kidney, as I talked to you about the first painting that you saw, the first slide I showed you, 90 peencrt of the petniats on the transplant wait list are waiting for a kidney, 90 percent. So, another strategy we're following is actually to create wafers that we stack together, like an accordion, if you will. So, we stack these wrfaes together, using the kdeniy cells. And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered. They are actually making urine. Again, small structures, our challenge is how to make them larger, and that is something we're working on right now at the institute. One of the things that I wteand to summarize for you then is what is a strategy that we're going for in renarigevtee medicine.

Open Cloze

For the kidney, as I talked to you about the first painting that you saw, the first slide I showed you, 90 _______ of the ________ on the transplant wait list are waiting for a kidney, 90 percent. So, another strategy we're following is actually to create wafers that we stack together, like an accordion, if you will. So, we stack these ______ together, using the ______ cells. And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered. They are actually making urine. Again, small structures, our challenge is how to make them larger, and that is something we're working on right now at the institute. One of the things that I ______ to summarize for you then is what is a strategy that we're going for in ____________ medicine.

Solution

  1. regenerative
  2. wafers
  3. kidney
  4. wanted
  5. percent
  6. patients

Original Text

For the kidney, as I talked to you about the first painting that you saw, the first slide I showed you, 90 percent of the patients on the transplant wait list are waiting for a kidney, 90 percent. So, another strategy we're following is actually to create wafers that we stack together, like an accordion, if you will. So, we stack these wafers together, using the kidney cells. And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered. They are actually making urine. Again, small structures, our challenge is how to make them larger, and that is something we're working on right now at the institute. One of the things that I wanted to summarize for you then is what is a strategy that we're going for in regenerative medicine.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
stem cells 8
blood vessel 7
smart biomaterials 4
cell types 3
muscle cells 3
hollow organs 3
solid organs 3
left side 2
small piece 2
lining cells 2
scaffold specifically 2
vascular tree 2
regenerative medicine 2
windpipe cell 2
runaway stage 2

Important Words

  1. accordion
  2. cells
  3. challenge
  4. create
  5. engineered
  6. institute
  7. kidney
  8. kidneys
  9. larger
  10. list
  11. making
  12. medicine
  13. miniature
  14. painting
  15. patients
  16. percent
  17. regenerative
  18. showed
  19. slide
  20. small
  21. stack
  22. strategy
  23. structures
  24. summarize
  25. talked
  26. transplant
  27. urine
  28. wafers
  29. wait
  30. waiting
  31. wanted
  32. working