Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement
www.ted.com Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy — real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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June 12th, 2011 at 2:01 am
Future….is Kevin
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June 12th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Master you are THE GREAT
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June 12th, 2011 at 3:13 am
@DeepDuh I agree with your general sentiment, and I do think we’re getting closer to making many types of animal testing obsolete. That having been said, you can sell/donate the parts used for this biotech from the same pigs you’re using for food, making for less waste, and might even drive down the cost of pork, since farmers would probably be making a more money off of the ligaments.
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June 12th, 2011 at 3:32 am
Hhhmm…..watch porn!!
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June 12th, 2011 at 4:14 am
so…what do you study to do stuff like this?
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June 12th, 2011 at 4:23 am
that whole young motorcycle comment was funny but creepy as crap
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June 12th, 2011 at 4:48 am
Get this procedure covered by my national health care!!!
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June 12th, 2011 at 5:05 am
So, do I get the bacon from my pig-lig donor too?
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June 12th, 2011 at 5:13 am
@Saktoth Don’t understand me wrong though: I still think it’s ok to use animals for things like basic testing of medication (because otherwise you would put humans on a high risk) or even what is proposed in this video. I just think, that we should head towards a society, where this isn’t necessary anymore (through science and technology, not through denying those activities).
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June 12th, 2011 at 5:19 am
@Saktoth It’s really hard to argue about animal ethics, basically because animals can’t stand in for their own rights. for me, the difference between using animals for food or for hightech medicine is: food is one of the most basic things we need for live. this still holds for meat and also for milk. not all of the components are replaceable by vegan food. I respect animals in a way, that I can only accept them to be killed for my sake if absolutely necessary (I don’t apply that to insects btw)
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June 12th, 2011 at 5:51 am
@DeepDuh
You dont need factory farms. Cows only produce milk if they have a calf, which is then killed. The sound a cow makes mourning their lost child is the saddest noise you will ever hear. Dont tell me Switzerland has no milk.
Worrying about the suffering of a few medical animals is ridiculous. A new joint can improve someones life by a lot more than a bit of nutrition will. And far fewer animals will suffer for a joint replacement than will suffer from a lifetime of eating them.
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June 12th, 2011 at 6:25 am
@abram730 You didn’t see the comment where i corrected myself? Simply typo. O2 is what I was talking about.
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June 12th, 2011 at 7:07 am
@abram730 Don’t be a dumbass abram730.
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June 12th, 2011 at 7:37 am
THIS IS TO ALL THOSE BITCHES CRYING ABOUT HOW WE ARE USING ANIMALS
sure these animals are pretty smart and such and such and we shouldnt be doing it, but we already use them for meet, i mean we arnt killing an entire animal for one small part of it, these animals are already going to be dead for our food, we are just taking something extra from the carcess
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June 12th, 2011 at 8:09 am
@DJTmaq Let test your theory about H2O… fill up your bath tub with H2O, stick you head in and take some deep breaths of that H2O… I predict the results of this experiment will save the world from your stupidity.
I mean you have no clue what you are talking about. You don’t know the difference between oxygen and water for starters. There are no bills to tax breath.
If you were educated of the subject you wouldn’t be saying such retarded things.
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June 12th, 2011 at 8:29 am
@SuperiorApostate Pigs are pretty smart. They have performed as well as Apes and dophins in mirror self-recognition tests. But ultimately we don’t know to what extent they are aware of their surroundings.
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June 12th, 2011 at 9:05 am
@Mygo666 Men know what a rolex is …….you’ll understand
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June 12th, 2011 at 9:36 am
@Mygo666 lol, but the rolex commercial was awesome ^^ much better than other commercials out there
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June 12th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Rolex is resorting to classy words, big numbers, and most of all nostalgia.
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June 12th, 2011 at 10:27 am
@DJTmaq I have heard that. It seems like a lot of things, too far from the point. I don’t support “cap & trade” because it’s retarded. It focuses on the wrong things. I oppose ethanol as a replacement for gasoline, because it generates ozone. That stuff is great in the upper atmosphere, but at ground level it kills plant-life and causes lung cancer.
I’ve always supported a move away from fossil fuels, but because I support progress, not because of some polar bear free scary future.
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June 12th, 2011 at 10:39 am
@t3tsuyaguy1 Yea you are right. Did you also know that ALL the planets in our solar system are also getting warmer? Speaking seriously.
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June 12th, 2011 at 11:20 am
granted this would be very helpful to me given that i am in my mid 20s and have bad OA already, but shouldn’t we take a second to consider the ethical implication of exploiting animals like that and not refering to them as “unlimited resources”? (which isn’t even correct) does he plan on creating farms solely for this purpose? don’t we have enough unethical factory farms? or do we just further torcher those animals by taking their tissue? (which would probably be questionable quality)
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June 12th, 2011 at 11:52 am
@DJTmaq The temperature always moves in both directions when you are looking at individual years. You have to look at long term trends. Looking at long term trends is one of the reasons I don’t buy that mankind is the main cause of our current cycle of warming, because it started before we were producing a great deal of CO2. But the earth gets psycho warm and then crazy cold over long time scales. Right now the long scale evidence is a trend of warming, which will continue.
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June 12th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
@bathetcnow go live in the wild and stop using the internet then.
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June 12th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
this in what i need for my knee its mest up and hurts whenver i go 90 degress
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