Organ
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So the patients are not
organ
systems, and they're not diseases; they're people, people with lives.
Because the breast has become a very political
organ.
Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an
organ
whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all.
We have strong skull bones that protect the most important
organ
in our body: the brain.
In fact, in the last 10 years, the number of patients requiring an
organ
has doubled, while in the same time, the actual number of transplants has barely gone up.
This is actually a patient who [was] presented with a deceased organ, and we then created one of these smart biomaterials, and then we then used that smart biomaterial to replace and repair that patient's structure.
What we did was we actually used the biomaterial as a bridge so that the cells in the
organ
could walk on that bridge, if you will, and help to bridge the gap to regenerate that tissue.
So the concept here: so if you do have a deceased or injured organ, we take a very small piece of that tissue, less than half the size of a postage stamp.
A few weeks later, you have your engineered
organ
that we're able to implant back into the patient.
So we go layer by layer through the organ, analyzing each layer as we go through the organ, and we then are able to send that information, as you see here, through the computer and actually design the
organ
for the patient.
The transplant community has actively campaigned in
organ
donation.
And in some areas, the commercial gifting of an
organ
in exchange for monetary reward has led to a flourishing trade in living, unrelated donors.
In 1988, at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a small series of whole
organ
pancreas transplants.
It's got a light
organ
under its eye.
We're integrating this now with a whole era of cellular engineering, and integrating exponential technologies for essentially 3D
organ
printing, replacing the ink with cells, and essentially building and reconstructing a 3D
organ.
So, if the body is sensing that you have damage to an
organ
and then it's initiating cancer, it's almost as if this is a repair response.
The brain is a highly efficient, energy-demanding
organ
that gets fully utilized and even though it is at full capacity being used, it suffers from a problem of information overload.
And so the Inflatable Heart is an external
organ
that can be used by the wearer to express themselves.
20 percent of the oxygen coming from your lungs, 20 percent of the blood pumped from your heart, is servicing this one
organ.
So people take it to prevent
organ
transplants from being rejected.
When food is scarce, they divert nutrients towards the really critical organ, the brain, and away from other organs like the heart and liver.
We attach a transducer, in this case, to the brain, but if it will be a different organ, it will be a different transducer attached to the patient.
So we'll start with the hippocampus, shown in yellow, which is the
organ
of memory.
PJC: So when Tyrone tells me that the placenta is an ancient organ, I'm thinking, how do I demonstrate that?
But again, a little diversion to the topic of
organ
donation.
But when you get your driving license, you check the box if you do not want to donate your
organ.
Twelve percent are
organ
donors.
Therefore, 99 percent of people are
organ
donors.
We talked about inertia and
organ
donations and checking the box.
And if you had an injured organ, if you had a heart attack and we wanted to repair that injured area, do you want those robust, plentiful stem cells on the top?
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