Caring for engineered tissue

Name: Caring for engineered tissue
Uploaded: 2011-07-08T00:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 56 s
Description: Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

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TED2011

• March 2011

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.