Printing a human kidney Discussion

Ted Talk Anthony Atala:  Printing a human kidney

http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html

In the last 10 years the number of patients has doubled while at the same time the number of actual transplants has __________________________________.

What is the name of the field that has to do with this topic?  ______________________________

When was the first book (about the culture of organs) published?  _____________

What are the 3 challenges to culturing organs?

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List three things that we can engineer:

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Where will the next generation possibly print it’s cells?  _________________________________

90 percent of all patients on the transplant list are waiting for what organ?  ______________________

Could you use the printed kidney as a functional working kidney?  _______________________________

The Skin Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI

View the skin gun video and then look in your textbook to find the definition and description of stem cells.  Write one paragraph to describe their function: