YORK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE, ORGANS ON A CHIP, KIDNEY FROM A 3D PRINTER

YORK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE in 1970 featured an in-house television studio, art studio and darkroom.  People were brought in from around the world for training on hands-on displays that taught heating and air conditioning, including associated electronics.  Click HERE to see one of the training displays.

Nighttime listening on my iPod included these mind warping presentations:

ORGANS ON A CHIP - Geraldine Hamilton builds organs and body parts on a chip -- to test new, custom cures.  It's not everyday we see a technology that has the potential to end all animal testing AND take giant strides towards low cost medicines. A truly spellbinding breakthrough.  Click HERE to listen to this 13 minute Ted Talk.

KIDNEY FROM A 3D PRINTER - Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.  Click HERE to listen to this 17 minute Ted Talk.

Related podcasts programmed into my ipod for later this week.... 

Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery Surgery isn’t as simple as it looks in medical textbooks, where different types of tissues are given different colors to differentiate them. Nope, inside the body, it is dark and hard to see, and the parts don’t look nearly as distinct. In this talk, surgeon Quyen introduces us to florescent markers that make tumors light up — making it much easier to for surgeons to operate and get all the cancerous tissue.

Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery — healing without cuts We’ve talked about minimally invasive surgery, but what about non-invasive surgery? In this talk medical inventor Yoav Medan shares a surgical technique that requires no cuts at all. It’s all about shaping ultrasound, and using it to treat issues like brain lesions and some cancerous growths … from outside the body.

Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons Ed Gavagan was brutally stabbed on a city street and survived against all odds thanks to a highly-skilled surgical team. This talk is a love letter to the skills surgeons must master — as simple as tying knots but with the power to save lives.

Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart A boiler engineer has a deep understanding of how pipes work.  When he found out that he required a risky surgery on his aorta, he made an analogy to his work and recognized it as a plumbing problem. In this talk Tal Golesworthy tells the story of how his plumbing knowledge created a new surgical procedure.

Iain Hutchison: Saving faces Iain Hutchison is a facial surgeon. But he’s not one you go to when you want plumper lips — he works with people whose faces have been severely disfigured. In this talk — which is not at all for the squeamish — he shares how advancing techniques have the ability to affect quality of life.