INKtalks are personal narratives that get straight to the heart of issues in 18 minutes or less. We are committed to capturing and sharing breakthrough ideas, inspiring stories and surprising perspectives for free! INK Fellow Nina Tandon is working on a problem: how to use cell technology to improve the surgical approach to grafting bone, the second most implanted human material. Labeling as 'preposterous' the fact that the only way to get human bone is to cut it out of a person, Nina is spearheading an astonishing advance in tissue engineering. In this talk, Nina describes how her research team is developing a technique to use cells from a patient's own body to grow living, personalized bone grafts - and in doing so, to create a next generation technology inspired by the wonders of the human body itself.
- Length: 00:08:30
- Producer: INKTalks
- Series: Education Fill with Gaps
- Category: Educational
