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What if you were called right now ...

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Organ transplants and the science of regenration

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What if you were called right now ...

... to save a life? 
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96,645 await kidney transplants

in the US alone 
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Would you "opt in,

or opt out?" 
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Germany -opt-in system

donation consent rate of 12%
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Australia -opt-out system

consent rate of 99.98% 
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But do we really know

how it works? 
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Organs stored in chemicals or on ice

last only a matter of hours 
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The far more desirable container:

a brain-dead body 
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so ...

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Now, would you opt in

or opt out? 
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However , ...

... what if we could solve the organ-donor problem? 
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like using living cells to output ...

... a transplantable kidney? 
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Or using biomaterials to engineer ...

... a functional human bladder 
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There's actually a major health crisis today

in terms of the shortage of organs 
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Medicine has done a much better job of making us live longer

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The problem is, as we age, our organs tend to fail more

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, and so currently there are not enough organs to go around.

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Thanks to advances in the field of regenerative medicine

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we have started to settle the debate and begun saving lives

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