Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue
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http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances fr... Read more
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- -: Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue
July 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?
August 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Should we keep the outdoors out of hospitals? Ecologist and TED Fellow Jessica Green has found that mechanical ventilation does get rid of many types of microbes, but the wrong kinds: the ones left in the hospital are much more likely to be pathogens. TEDTalks is a daily video...
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- -: Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may ...
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- -: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you'll ever see ... ...
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- -: Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perf...
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