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

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 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	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.1	This is Ted Health.
0:08.1	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:11.6	What if stem cells, our own body's master cells, could be used to heal us?
0:16.2	These highly adaptable cells have the potential to reverse cell damage and restore loss function
0:21.0	caused by disease.
0:22.5	In her 2021 Ted Monorey Talk, biotech entrepreneur, Nabiya Saklian, explains how the creation
0:28.3	of stem cell banks, personalized for each patient, are paving the way for on-demand treatments
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