Ted Talks Summary No. 3

Anthony Atala
          Printing a human Kidney


In this presentation Anthony Atala is trying to get his point across, when he talks about his cry out in how the world is in a medical crisis because of the lack of human organ donors. In the past until the present, the number of organ donors has gone down, while the number of patients that require organs has gone up. Therefore, Anthony Atala has come up with a way to engineer artificial organs, using biological tissues that allow cells to use as if it was the original organic material.

I first flipped to this particular presentation on a hype from technology from my last summary, I was confused at what "Printing a Human Kidney" could be. and it was really interesting to see how the field of medicine is becoming so technological, for a greater good.

Anthony Atala's talk at the very start got me worried for the future and made me think of how fragile our bodies actually are, and that people may be waiting for a long, long time for donors for new organs, and that they might not get them before they parish of whatever sickness they are suffering from. I would've never imagined some technology as advanced as this coming into the near future, his vision of a world of people who could have access to organs at free disperse could save so many lives. Yet I thought of it as a      
visionary's dream, until I saw it applied to an actual person in need.

Continuing on my last paragraph, the most important little bit I got out of this was when the boy that they cured when he was young coming up on the stage 10 years later to talk about how this man saved his life, and how he will never be the same thanks to him, because he allowed him to live his life free of pain  and struggle heath-wise.