Tag Archives: organs

Growing Human Organs — Dr. Anthony Atala Blows the Minds of a TED Audience

If there was ever a point in your career to unleash your inner magician, it’s at a TED conference, hands [...]

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Guest Post: Top 10 Innovations at TEDMED

This is a guest post written by Alexandra Carmichael. She is a co-founder of CureTogether, a Health 2.0 company that [...]

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China: “We Don’t Use Executed Prisoners for Organs…Not Anymore”

The Chinese government has many strengths, but I don’t think that international PR is one of them. In a report [...]

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TransMedics: Transplanting a Beating Heart

You’ve heard a bit about heart transplants and they’re no piece of cake, but now there’s a company out there [...]

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Organovo Pioneers 3-D Organ Printing: Hype or Hope?

The plastic 3-D printing machine has been around for a few years and man, is that cool. It can replicate [...]

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Growing Organs in the Lab

Why transplant an organ when you can grow yourself a new one? This research isn’t something that might happen in [...]

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