Alan Russell: Why can’t we grow new body parts?
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www.ted.com Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine — a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that “speaks the body’s language” has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells can rebuild damaged heart muscle, and how cell therapy can regenerate the skin of burned soldiers. This new, low-impact medicine comes just in time, Russell says — our aging population, with its steeply rising medical bills, will otherwise (and soon) cause a crisis in health care systems around the world. Some graphic medical imagery.
August 17th, 2010 at 6:35 am
@Thedreamshaperabc
I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm. So…?
If it’s not sarcasm.
I doubt they do it for fun, they do it for money, scamming people into thinking ESCs are some kind of panacea potion. IN reality it’s nothing more than snake oil.
If it was sarcasm. ehh.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:35 am
@ThomasJS1
Yeah, they just wanna do it for the fun of it -_-
August 17th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Compassionate Progressive Healthcare Proponents and Transhumanists unite, to end disease/aging and manifest our yearnings for immortality. It’s time to transcend the limits and constraints we suffer via uninformed/confused masses.
~ S
That is all, as you were
August 17th, 2010 at 7:52 am
@strange3141 Your appeal to ‘authority’ or ‘majority’ here is a logical reasoning error. There is zero evidence of a human soul and many question whether consciousness itself is an illusion. Simple. If that changes, then we can speculate. Many intelligent people also believe in god, that polar bears are all left handed and that planet earth has only one moon …they are all still lacking evidence or a solid base in observations in our reality.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:05 am
@itchyb00 nvm, 19;03 minutes.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:55 am
seems like 21:23 minutes to me
August 17th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Brilliant. I hope to contribute to this field one day!!!
August 17th, 2010 at 9:37 am
So; how’s the view of things now? Is his work on the “bail-out” list — or does the retardation continue?
August 17th, 2010 at 9:42 am
There are millions of people with an education undoubtedly better than yours that do believe in an imortal soul, and couldn’t care less about your “respect”. You think it is something of value? Do be so full of yourself.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:22 am
When you are making claims about nature, you’d better be prepared to back them up or be laughed at. You have no reason to believe in souls. You have no idea what a soul is, and finally, you have no reason to believe anything related to souls happens at conception.
Why should I “respect” your unfounded assertion?
This is not a question of “intolerance”, but about you being unable to back up your claims.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:54 am
First traces of brain activity starts roughly at week 6.
25% of ALL embryos are miscarried by the 6th week. Meaning, in your worldview God is responsible for almost all abortions.
Virtually all(well over 90%) artificially induced abortions happen within the first trimester, and most before the first 10 weeks.
In such an environment, it is simply retarded to ruin the lives of women on behalf of unconscious parasites.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Actually they were banning Embryonic stem cell research which in decades has had 0 results. It’s a complete waste of time and money, not to mention human life.
While Adult stem cell research is actually curing people today. See: /watch?v=zI7TQzVOc2o&feature=related
Idiots keeping hyping ESCR which is completley worthless and flat out ignoring ASCR which has Actually helped people.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Hey! New Prez…maybe he can ask for his 2 mill now….
August 17th, 2010 at 11:51 am
I would think that a fetus becomes a “person” when brain activity starts, or just before the third trimester (about 25 weeks in). After all, it is our unique thought and creativity that we associate with our uniqueness compared to everything else right? Even religiously motivated people can relate to this and assume that this could be a representation of our “soul” So I figure that after 25 weeks its a bit late to consider abortion.
August 17th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Regenerative medicine.
The most important research of today that should be receiving as much funding as possible. I would donate on monthly basis for this cause if there was a viable way.
Unfortunately and shockingly very few people realize the importance of this. Nobody cares, there are even groups lobbying to ban stem cell related research. Look at the previous US administration etc…. :,-(
August 17th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
stop pretending like you care about human life strange3141… We see how quick people of your ilk dismiss human life after it’s born.. cheer at the the slaughter of children.
championing the rights of eggs doesn’t distract me from the misery you perpetrate on living and breathing humans you slaughter by the million.
August 17th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
What Hubris & Outright Pettifogging Greed for the NRH Director to assert that the Vision is Bigger than their Appetite.
27.8 BILLION Dollar Endowment @ Harvard University & they can’t pinch a bit for this strategic focus & development.
What elite BLOOTERS they are..
August 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Kurtilein3 said: “what point? maybe AFTER its brain is bigger than that of a fly?”
Hey everybody! Kurtilein3 has just admitted to being AGAINST KILLING any babies growing in their mother’s womb AFTER THE END OF THE FIRST MONTH of pregnancy, because by that time the baby’s brain would be at least the size of that of a fly. Kurtilein3, at least you have made some progress. Keep at it until you support the rights of all babies in the womb.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
strange3141:
what purpose do those irrational religious beliefs have? like, this belief in souls?
if such a belief has NO positive effect, but when it has the negative effects that otherwise rational people go nuts when you criticize it, and that it makes stem cell research difficult, then we need to get rid of those beliefs, educate those misconceptions out of the people, to make progress in stem cell research easier.
what point? maybe AFTER its brain is bigger than that of a fly?
August 17th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
You are so politically incorrect! You are so very intolerant of those who DO believe a person becomes a living soul at the moment of conception. Such intolerance! How sad that you diminish the value of a person to the worth of a fly! So are you in favor of partial birth abortion? Probably! If not, then exactly at what point do you believe a growing baby in the womb suddenly has worth and rights? WHAT POINT? (You will probably not answer the question, for you are an irresponsible coward).
August 17th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
why is this video gone?
and where did it go?
August 17th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
strange3141:
ill just repeat myself… “unfortunately, you do not have any rational arguments to back this up. there are no child sacrifices involved. the religious belief that a bunch of 100 human cells can experience more suffering than a fly, which has 100000s of neurons, is irrational.”
embryonic stem cells are “harvested” while the embryo has a size of about 100 cells. any questions left?
morons oppose this because they believe in this nonsensical soul-stuff.
August 17th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
You are wrong about that. Some people are against only one type of stem cell research, and that is EMBRYONIC stem cells, because obviously, it requires killing a baby prior to harvest. But there are many kinds of stem cells these people support in research and usage, such as umbilical cord stem cells, adult stem cells, fat-derived stem cells, etc. These do not require ending a life to harvest the cells. Pro-abortionists push for embryonic stem cells in hopes to ‘justify’ abortion as moral.
August 17th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
the fact that this video is gone is creepy
August 17th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
why does he have to politicize this by making admiring comments about the world’s biggest hypocrite: Al Gore
Yes, folks, Al Gore will fly around in a private jet telling the common people not to pollute. Then since he’s rich, he’ll just make up for his squandering lifestyle by buying energy credits – FROM HIS OWN COMPANY!!!!
I’d rather have real science than profiteering by a politician.