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What you die of is increasing organ failure, with your respiratory, cardiac, renal, whatever organs packing up.
But what we're talking about in regenerative medicine is doing this in every organ system of the body, for tissues and for organs themselves.
But it's applicable, again, to every organ system.
And so we can also now virtually gain access to this even more distant organ system that, from the skeleton alone, has long decomposed.
We have a class of experts, professionals, who play very expensive instruments, for the most part, things like the organ, complicated instruments, and if you wanted to hear music in the 18th century, it was live.
So in theory, you could grow any organ from any one of your cells.
The first place where you would expect to see enormous evolutionary pressure today, both because of the inputs, which are becoming massive, and because of the plasticity of the organ, is the brain.
So today I'm here to argue that this is not at all an esoteric Ivory Tower activity that we find at our universities, but that broad study across species, tissue types and organ systems can produce insights that have direct implications for human health.
So today I'm going to give you an example drawn from my penis study to show you how knowledge drawn from studies of one organ system provided insights into a very different one.
Most of the time it's a flexible organ.
Now what these transplants, these fecal transplants, or the poo tea suggest to me, and many other people have come up with this same idea, is that the microbial community in and on us, it's an organ.
We should view it as a functioning organ, part of ourselves.
And he said that there were still times when he wished he could go back and play the organ the way he used to, and that for me, medical school could wait, but that the violin simply would not.
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
If we look at biology, and many of you probably don't know, I was a biology major before I went into architecture, the human skin is the organ that naturally regulates the temperature in the body, and it's a fantastic thing.
By combining tissue engineering techniques with microfluidics, the field is actually evolving towards just that, a model of the entire ecosystem of the body, complete with multiple organ systems to be able to test how a drug you might take for your blood pressure might affect your liver or an antidepressant might affect your heart.
It depends, of course, on what scale or what scope you want to think about, but this is an organ of surreal complexity, and we are just beginning to understand how to even study it, whether you're thinking about the 100 billion neurons that are in the cortex or the 100 trillion synapses that make up all the connections.
In a sense, it actually makes you feel that when you're in the safe zone of studying behavior or cognition, something you can observe, that in a way feels more simplistic and reductionistic than trying to engage this very complex, mysterious organ that we're beginning to try to understand.
You could, if you want, compare this to, on the one hand, a myocardial infarction, a heart attack, where you have dead tissue in the heart, versus an arrhythmia, where the organ simply isn't functioning because of the communication problems within it.
In Taiwan, at an art museum, this 12-year-old girl made a mushroom organ out of some mushrooms that were from Taiwan and some electrical tape and hot glue.
No animal, let alone a frog, has been known to do this, to change one organ in the body into another.
What if I want to make, say, a rock organ?
But sometimes, a surgical procedure can even be done using a single needle, and in Stanford now, we are working on a very flexible needle, kind of a very tiny soft robot which is mechanically designed to use the interaction with the tissues and steer around inside a solid organ.
This makes it possible to reach many different targets, such as tumors, deep inside a solid organ by using one single insertion point.
OK, so how do you study this mysterious organ?
Now we have a whole pipeline of different organ chips that we are currently working on in our labs.
This is an instrument that our engineers are actually prototyping right now in the lab, and this instrument is going to give us the engineering controls that we're going to require in order to link 10 or more organ chips together.
In the words of the poet Longfellow, "the human voice is the organ of the soul."
The amygdala is an almond-shaped organ deep within each of the hemispheres of the brain.
When she finds one, she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ.
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