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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 158 – DR. SAM PASHNEH-TALA /HUMAN TISSUE ENGINEER - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Football, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to human tissue engineer Dr. Sam Pashneh-Tala. Whilst discussing his field of research (his specialty is blood vessels) Tim and Sam discuss how you can grow human tissue, its uses and the moral and ethical issues around it. They also discuss the advancement of gene editing and what that means.
Sam is on social media here:
Twitter - @DrSamPT
Instagram - @drsam_pt
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If you would like to contact us then our email address is dearlovejoypodcast@gmail.com or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast, sponsored by a cooker, spelt cooker, pronounced cooker,

0:07.0

100 degree boiling hot water straight to your kitchen tap.

0:09.7

Today is another special.

0:11.7

Woo!

0:12.6

Today was a conversation with Sam Pashtanata.

0:16.9

Sam is a research fellow and faculty of engineering at the University of Sheffield.

0:26.2

Sam's job is tissue engineering.

0:30.3

What is tissue engineering, you say?

0:32.5

Well, I'm not going to bother to explain it now because Sam does a very good job of it in a couple of minutes time whilst

0:38.4

we do the podcast. What I will say is this is one of the best podcasts I think I've ever done

0:45.0

because do you think this Mark, we've done this, we've done these podcasts for a long time and

0:50.7

very engaging, very interesting. Because it's the future of the human race

0:55.3

Sam is disgusting I mean that's where you take that's where you took the conversation

0:59.0

it's but but he thinks that as well because he's trying to do the research yeah but you

1:03.2

want to put your brain in a fridge I do I promise you stay with this conversation I know's quite a long podcast, but it really will change the way you think. An hour or so, but it really will change the way you think about what is going to happen to the human race and the way we're evolving and the way we're developing medicine. It's fascinating. Sam is brilliant. He's a brilliant talker.

1:28.8

Let's meet him.

1:29.9

This is Sam Pashtana.

1:31.5

This is just a guide to modern life.

1:36.2

Modern life is hard to get just right.

1:40.2

It can frustrate you and annoy it.

1:44.0

And if it does, writing into dear love, joy.

1:51.9

Sam, welcome to my kitchen.

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