Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? | Nabiha Saklayen

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What if diseases could be treated with a patient’s own cells, precisely and on demand? Biotech entrepreneur Nabiha Saklayen explains how we could harness advances in biology, machine learning and lasers to create personalized stem cell banks -- and develop medicine uniquely designed for each of our bodies.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Whether it's diabetes, Parkinson's, or aging, stem cells, which can be any kind of cell, might offer a cure for all of these and more.
0:15.5	In her talk from Ted Monterey 2021, biotech entrepreneur Nabilia Suclion brings together the potential of stem cells
0:23.6	with the exciting possibility of lasers. Lasers. You're sitting in the doctor's office waiting for test results. She comes in and says,
0:38.2	you have Parkinson's disease.
0:41.1	Your heart sinks,
0:42.4	and you think about everything that will go wrong,
0:44.6	you'll be unable to walk,
0:46.4	unable to feed yourself,
0:47.7	your hands trembling,
0:49.6	drooling,
0:50.8	unable to swallow.
0:52.8	But before you say anything, she says,
0:55.5	not to worry.
0:57.1	We'll put in an order for your cells today.
1:01.3	You come back a week later
1:02.7	and a surgeon transplants brand new neurons
1:06.1	into your brain.
1:08.6	You just received an on-demand, functional cure for Parkinson's made from your cells.
1:18.4	It sounds like science fiction, but in the future, we will all have the option of having
1:24.5	our stem cells banged ahead of time, so that any time you need new neurons, new muscle cells, new skin cells,
1:32.1	they'd be generated from the spank.
1:34.7	And because there, 100 percent, your cells,
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