Name: Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells?
Uploaded: 2021-09-24T14:53:33Z
Duration: 10 min 21 s
Description: 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.

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.

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

Regenerative medicine is entering an era where a person’s own stem cells could provide on-demand cures for conditions like Parkinson’s and diabetes. Today, a personalized stem cell bank costs about a million dollars and requires tedious manual work, but new advances in lasers and machine learning are making production faster and more affordable. Future clinics could bank individual stem cells at birth, enabling doctors to order new tissues or even organs that the body will not reject. This vision promises treatments tailored to each person’s unique biology, closing the gap in care for people of every background.