Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? | Nabiha Saklayen Image

Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? | Nabiha Saklayen

24 September 2021 - 10 mins
Podcast Series TED Talks Daily

What if diseases could be treated with a patient's own cells, precisely and on demand? Biotech entrepreneur Nabiha Saklayen explains how we could harness advances in biology, machine learning and lasers to create personalized stem cell banks -- and develop medicine uniquely designed for each of our bodies.

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