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as a pediatric surgeon i meet babies all thetime who have had intestinal loss mainly from problems of prematurity. and when they losea significant amount of their intestine they can no longer eat enough to get enough nutritionto survive. and so tissue engineering is attempting to engineer that tissue that they've lost. we're at the workshop that cirm has convenedto look at the opportunities in tissue engineering and where engineering strategies might interfacewith stem cells and stem cell science. i think of tissue engineering as the replacementor regeneration of human organs and human tissues to restore normal function. cartilage for example is very useful applicationfor tissue engineering. if you can devise

a material that can allow cells to thriveand provide the mechanical support in that environment that's kinda that's tissue engineering. tissue engineering is not a new idea. we'vebeen able to replace skin for example for a long time using tissue engineering techniques.what is new however is the ability to actually put cells into those bits of tissue engineeredbiomaterials. a lot of the materials that are currentlyused by surgeons, if you need to have a hip implant or you need to have a blood vesselreplaced, they're based on materials like gore-tex or titanium alloys the same typesof things you might find in a golf bag. and so we're interested in trying to design new types of materials that will promote

stem cell growth and promote the body's healing process. this kind of meeting is so important to convene engineers and stem cell biologists and government officials and investors and other key stakeholdersto really understand what the challenges are. and think about the really big problems inthe field. what are sort of the things that keeping our research from moving forward andbeing able to move into patients. we want to ensure in the conversation thatwe're having here that the scientists are engaging with the patients in mind and helpcirm understand how we can help drive that science forward. one big roadblock right now is how do we actuallydeliver stem cells to a patient. when you

force the cells through a syringe needle thatcan be damaging to the cells. so one of the roadblocks that my group is trying to overcomeis design a gel like material that would encapsulate the cells and kinda provide a soft cushionfor them so that they can survive the injection process. with cirm funding we've made a lot of progress.and we've actually be able to work out in some mouse models exactly how to grow theengineered intestine. the hurdles are that we have to understand to science better andactually be able to make the transition to humans. there are a lot of wonderful ideas here andwe may be able to help some of these researchers move their product from an early experimentalstage into maybe even clinical trials. i think

with tissue engineering, regenerative medicinethere's actually now the hope that maybe we can cure some of these diseases.

stemcell inc

stemcell inc

ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this latestteaching session on the course of technology and the future of medicine. there is a meetingin new orleans in mid-july that a number of former students from this course are goingto with me. we're giving, i think, nine presentations. three are in this young researcher's, i mean,six are in the young researcher's forum, where they get a ten minute presentation. thosepresentations can have no senior author. they're student authors only and then there'll bethree other presentations there of a more usual sort. and suddenly my name and faceand everything was sort of all over the meeting. when you go to the website for the meeting,and i don't know quite how that happened, but i have this fantasy that the people fromthis course who are going to that meeting

are basically taking over the meeting. andwe're going to have it be the first meeting that seriously discusses such things as regenerativemedicine pathology. what is that? tissue engineering pathology. it has never been described atany meeting. it's a logical next step and a bunch of other things like that. the studentsare as young as 22 and it will be interesting to see how this all comes off. the other thingis the flipped teaching session on march 24th. that's more than two months away, but jasonwertheim...i told him what marvellous students we have in this course, so he's really expectingthis session to be good. so i thought you might want him whatever way makes sense toyou to use those two months to kind of prepare. if you already know a lot about regenerativemedicine and creating new organs from stem

cells, then you might not need to do muchreading, but if you don't know much about that, you might want to prepare. and the pdfthat i sent you is an article that he mentioned of me at the same time that he accepted theidea of teaching in this course by skype. so it's a very simplistic article. like alot of you don't know anything about pathology, really. and that article, cells are eitherthere or they're not. you'd look at areas of an organ that's supposed to have a continuouspattern of cells and in certain circumstances, a lot of the cells have simply missing. andi think it's the easiest kind of pathologic process to possibly, you know, imagine, asa kind of starting point. so just the absence of cells that are usually there. okay, sothis teaching session today, osmar zaiane

is doing the main teaching and it's the beginningof a series of three lectures about artificial intelligence. the objectives are to introduceyou to the basic elements of ai, machine learning and data mining, to introduce you to basicconcepts of the influence of ai on the exponential future, including the concept of unfriendlyai and the technological singularity. you've heard that before. to provide you with concreteexamples of ai in everyday life and in medicine. now you may have walked into this room thinkingthis is just another lecture in the course, but that is not the case, because it is quitepossible that ai represents the ultimate existential risk, that it's more likely that unfriendlyai would do in our human race than any other risk out there. that's what stephen hawkingthinks. a number of other...elon musk and

other bright people are extremely worriedthat dr. zaiane's subject is going to mean the end of mankind. so if that's true, thisis sort of like way more important than the other lectures so far in this course. thetechnological singularity is crucially dependent on ai developments. ai is very important tothe singularity, but that does not mean that all ai researchers believe in the concept.it does not naturally follow, so you can find a whole spectrum of people working in ai whodon't really believe that there will be such a thing to those who believe in it very strongly.some believe that it will occur very soon, others that it will take a really long time,like over 100 years. you can read about ai in books. but the five or ten minutes thatyou spent playing with the sony aibo robotic

dog before class, i think give you a sortof a tangible, you know, feeling of maybe what ai is really like. and it's amazing howmuch that dog can do when you figure that the last production run was 10 years ago.so think of what sony could have done with this product if they kept on going. this presencein the course is a rather popular part of the course. in previous years, these are thevarious features that that dog has. it's wifi compatible. it can be your, you know, alarmclock. people can send you messages through the dog. there are all sorts of things youprobably don't want as features but that the dog can do for you. and its conversation withyou is never quite the same. it has a remarkable vocabulary and it never says anything unkind.it tells you that it loves you. it tells you...it

asks you if you're tired at the end of theday. all the things that a good friend should do, that dog does. and what about the sonyaibo robotic dog in canada? well, it seems not to be a canadian thing. in that i purchasedthe first aibo here, but as i tried to purchase the other models, they were no longer soldhere. but they were very popular amongst ai researchers like dr. zaiane, and they usedthem for many things, but that includes robo-soccer. and you would think, robo-soccer, that theyrun around on their paws. but that's not true, they run around on their elbows, so it's avery interesting kind of locomotion. and the aibo can keep going forever, as long as youkeep the charging station plugged in so it can automatically sense when its voltage islow, seek out the charging station, sort of

sleep on the charging station as it rechargesand then when it's fully charged, get back off and so on. just like you. so it knowswhen it needs to go to bed and it knows when it needs to get up and all that sort of thing.it can keep going forever. it was much less interesting, the aibo in canada, than in theus, and the only way i got this one, you wouldn't believe that i did this, but i flew to a hotelin the u.s., simply for the purpose of getting a sony aibo robotic dog, waited until thepackage arrived and then flew back home. and because sony has these buying around rules,where if you're in canada, you can't buy from sony u.s. and vice versa, that was the onlyway to get it. and it arrived with all sorts of stickers, "do not forward. if the recipientis not present, send it back to sony." so

anyway, that's how i got that dog. and whois it for? this is not for kids. it's not for a child. the ears and tail, as you'vealready seen, come off within seconds, so in the hands of a child, this is completelyimpractical. it looks really stupid without the ears and tail. so it's for you. it's foryoung adults. specifically for female young adults, for affluent young adults, to a certainextent, for asian young female. so the main market in the u.s. and japan was affluentyoung women. even the men who bought them tended to buy them for the women in theirlives. asia will lead the way in the development of robots for consumers. as you probably know,robotics in the u.s. is heavily organized around the military, saving wounded soldiersin battle with all sorts of clamshell-like

robots and stuff like that, whereas in asiathere's a strong orientation around useful robots in the home and care of the elderly.so the first robots that really be...enter your life and are practical and helpful toyou will probably have come from asia. and it's good not to get confused. the classicai movie "blade runner", is part of everybody's consciousness in this area. the replicantsin that movie were not silicon based. they were the result of genetic engineering. theywere biology based, flesh and blood beings, not silicon and circuit boards. whereas therobots in the movie "a.i." were like this dog. they are silicon based. okay. that'sit. so now dr. zaiane will get set up and present the first of his three lectures.

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stem

hi! this is dave smith with hillcrest skiand sports in gresham, oregon on behalf of expert village. in this tutorial we will coverbeginning skiing. in this clip we'll cover the stem christi turn which is a more advancedturn. the stem christi turn is a very important stepping stone to parallel turns which isan intermediate to advanced skiing technique. because of that, this should be the last techniquethat you work on in this beginning skiing lesson. the stem christi turn starts out thesame way as the wedge turn. extend your legs. transfer your weight, the majority of yourweight onto the ski that will become your downhill ski. but, instead of staying in thewedge position, allow your uphill ski to slide into the french fry position so that it'sparallel to your downhill ski in the middle

of your turn. come across the slope. and asyou enter your next turn in the wedge position, again allow that uphill ski to drop in parallelto your downhill ski. continue doing this until you get comfortable with it. make surethat before you start working on the stem christi turn you're very comfortable linkingturns in the wedge position. also make sure you're still doing the basics keeping yourweight on the balls of your feet, keeping your feet shoulder width apart and keepingyour hands in front of you where you can see them.

stem treatment

stem treatment

you've reached placidway, the leading healthtourism company! subscribe to our youtube channel and get instant access to all of ourlatest health videos. stem cell treatment for epilepsyin epilepsy, the brain is permanently in a state which tends to produce convulsions.so, epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures. generally,an epileptic seizure is an abnormal function of the central nervous system sudden and transientappearance. it usually lasts no more than twominutes. epileptic seizures can occur both in the form of spasms as involuntary movementsor states of dementia. embryonic stem cells havethe unique capacity to develop into any type

of cell in the human body;blood, bone, brain tissue, liver tissue, skin tissue, etc.. embryonic stem cell researchcan help regenerate and restore damaged brain tissue,making it an extremely viable therapy for individualsdiagnosed with various forms of the epilepsy. scientists and researchers have studied anddetermined that neuron precursor cells taken fromembryonic stem cells can be transplanted or implanted into brain tissue and generate newbrain tissues in that area. over 80 nations haveconducted studies and experiments in this field, whichhas led to positive results expressing hope

for extremely effective therapies for improvingbrain function not only with individuals diagnosedwith epilepsy, but those diagnosed with parkinson's and alzheimer's disease as well.scientistsand researchers are focusing on neurogenesis, or the production and proliferation ofnew and healthy neural cells in the brain and central nervous system to help alleviatesymptoms of epilepsy in millions of individuals aroundthe world. current studies have determined thattherapies and studies underway may have extreme beneficial effects on epileptic syndromes,and studies will certainly continue into the futurein regard to learning and understanding regeneration

or neurogenesis of brain cells and tissuesthat may help alleviate, reduce, and even someday cure epilepsy syndromes found in mostchildren and adults. if you want to know more, please contact us!

stem therapy

stem therapy

we have some remarkable video to show you tonight. stroke victims.. making incredible progress... literally overnight. thanks to a new kind of treatment at stanford. emily turner is here with a story you'll see only on five. it was a small clinical trial at

stanford, that involved an experimental treatment with special stem cells. the doctors are stunned and the patients - overjoyed. five years ago, sonia coontz suffered a stroke - that severely damaged her brain, this is sonia's stroke

it partially paralyzed sonia on her right side, and she could barely speak. "her speech was not very understandable she couldn't order food or communicate well" two years later, sonia could still hardly lift her arm. but just one day after an

experimental treatment - - "oh my gosh " sonia could lift her arm over her head- (pause) and move it to the side -(pause) and als0 to the front. and her words began to flow "i woke up and immediately i could speak better "

"she's what we call one of our miracle patients. doctor gary steinberg, chair of neurosurgery at stanford, led the small clinical trial. eighteen chronic stroke patients were involved. twelve came to stanford - - including sonia "i was very excited i think i

started to cry" . in the trial, steinberg drilled a tiny hole into the patient's skull and using a very fine needle, injected modified human adult stem cells around the stroke. we put them around the stroke and that where they do their

thing to recover the function. these stem cells are created by "san bio" - a biotech company located in mountain view. it's very exciting scientists here derived them from the bone marrow of two adult donors, and then tweaked them. these cells don't survive

for long after transplantation. but they appear to trigger a patient's damaged brain to begin to heal itself. "we think that transplanting the stem cells is jumpstarting the circutis. " here's another stroke patient just before surgery.. and here

she is just days after receiving the stem cell treatment. as for sonia, her life is back on track. she's now married and pregnant with her first child "it's a boy yeah.. (laughs)" not all of the patients, but most of them in the study saw a

of them in the study saw a benefit that has lasted. but steinberg is cautious and wants to replicate these findings in a much larger trial. that study is now enrolling participants. these results were published this afternoon in the journal,

stroke. for more information, go to kpix dot com

stem research

stem research

an artificial version of the human mid-brainusing stem cells. it will allow for more extensive researchand drug testing. park jong-hong explains how the creation byan international team of researchers could have broad treatment implications... especiallyfor degenerative disorders involving the motor system. the breakthrough could eventually be life-alteringnews for patients of parkinson's disease. the leading degenerative disorder of the centralnervous system is a condition stemming from the midbrain, which is in charge of motorfunctions that control auditory and eye movements, vision and body movements.

the midbrain contains special neurons thatproduce dopamine, and the disease develops when the number of neurons decreases. with the breakthrough, scientists have createda miniature version of the midbrain, which they hope will shed light on exactly how parkinson'sevolves and lead to a cure for it and other aging-related brain diseases. while miniature versions of the brain havebeen developed before, this one is the first of its kind. it is a three-dimensional miniature with tissuesthat were grown in a laboratory using stem cells cultivated from human blood, and itcan be used in a variety of drug tests instead

of in experiments on actual patients. the medical community is abuzz about the possibilitiesfor research and treatment the breakthrough will have. the joint study was conducted by an internationalteam led by professor shawn je from duke-nus medical school and a*star's genome instituteof singapore. their findings were published this month inthe journal cell stem cell. park jong-hong arirang news.

stem enhance

stem enhance

you've reached placidway, the leading healthtourism company where you can compare the most affordabletreatments worldwide! subscribe to our youtube channel and get instant access to all of ourlatest health videos. umbilical cord stem cell therapywhen parents have children, they don't always think of what might happen in the future.illness and medical conditions that might occur as the child grows older are now beingthought of when parents decide to collect and store their newborn’s umbilical cordblood in a cord bank. during the 1970s, doctors discovered that the blood found within theumbilical cord could supply blood-forming stem cells, and they began to collect andstore them in stem cell banks. these special

stem cells are capable of turning into threetypes of mature blood cells that are found in all humans; red and white blood cells,and platelets. children who suffer from cancer or other blooddiseases must undergo chemotherapy or radiation to treat their condition, but these treatmentsalso harm healthy cells within the body, including the cells in the bone marrow, where red bloodcells are formed. for children who need a bone marrow transplant, which can be complicatedsince a matched donor must be willing to donate bone marrow. instead, or in combination toa bone marrow transplant, previously stored and healthy umbilical cord blood cells aretransplanted into the child, and go on to create new, healthy blood cells which in turnenhance the child’s blood production and

immune system.benefits of umbilical cord stem cell treatments the benefit of using umbilical cord stem cellsis vital when a child is faced with a medical illness or diseases. since the placenta andumbilical cord have traditional been discarded, finding these cells increase the chances ofsurvival when an individual is faced with cancers, blood diseases or other ailments.being frozen cryogenically also means they are available for use at any time, which isvery important when faced with cancer or other serious medical condition. millions of parentshave frozen and store their baby's umbilical cord blood these days, and their numbers aregrowing. stem cell research and development is entering an exciting era, and it is hopedthat someday soon, multiple treatments for

formerly incurable illnesses and disease processeswill be discovered, making storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells invaluable.