The Promise of Human Regeneration: Forever Young

SYNOPSIS: From lab-grown organs to tissue engineering, regenerative medicine holds the potential to deliver eternal life. How close are we to this new future of human health? Developmental biologists, biomedical engineers, regenerative scientists, and physicians for a riveting exploration of the current and future state of regenerative medicine.

PARTICIPANTS: Dany Spencer Adams, Stephen Badylak, Jonathan Butcher, Doris Taylor
MODERATOR: Emily Senay
Original program date: JUNE 1, 2017

FULL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Synthetic blood mass-produced to meet supply shortages. Livers and kidneys “bioprinted” on demand. Missing fingers and toes re-grown with a jolt of bioelectricity. Regenerative medicine promises to do more than just treat disease, injuries, or congenital conditions. It holds the potential to rejuvenate, heal, or completely replace damaged tissue and organs. If successful, regenerative medicine will have immense impact on how we care for the injured, sick, and aging — and how we think about death. This program will explore mind-boggling medical advances as well as the societal and economic implications of a future in which everybody may truly be forever young.

This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.

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TOPICS:

- Forever Young Introduction 00:00

- Participant Introductions 3:55

- What is being worked on in the field of human regeneration? 5:35

- How do you make a heart? 9:43

- Growing nerve endings 16:38

- The future of using the human genome 24:41

- What are the near term benefits of human regeneration? 34:44

- Electrical signals will be the first step in unification 46:07

- Bringing extinct species back 53:27

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[Mike-uogg]

We need more of these talks that bring the right people together to talk and take the next step.

[robson_leao]

I start Material's Engineer graduation here and my dream is to study biomaterials and cell regeneration, this could save a lot of lives.

[artgirl]

My daughter has a kidney transplant. It would be wonderful for her to get her own kidney (she has a genetic disease and lost both kidneys). Transplants are absolutely horrid and the medications you must take for the remainder of your life are even worse. This would be an incredible miracle.

[tzs-limitlesstodamoon]

I love intelligent conversations. Absolutely stimulating

[somecuriosities]

You guys NEED to list this and make it public. Great work and great program.

[insightandsenses]

Loving what these scientists are accomplishing. Very impressive knowledge and regeneration technology for the future.

[HERCOBULYable]

Finally, there is someone that is talking about what exist for 10 years but if you are the person that creates this technology that will revolutionalize life, the medical science, and medical industry and the new way to treat, cure and destroy diseases and the way has we living for millions of years until now!

Thanks, guys for this awesome information that will be to all humankind in the very near future.

[ElenaCarvajal]

I have spine damage and my quality of life is pretty damn low, I'd love to have the my injuries healed and not have pain 24/7.

[ericvulgate]

in my lifetime i distinctly remember the consensus was that we could *never* regrow nerves.
amazing!

[joshuabrooks]

I've been exploring longevity for as long as I have been able to read. There's several ways to slow it down to a crawl and even reverse aging but not many to rebuild actual tissue. Great video.

[donaldoyler]

I have stage 3 kidney disease caused by the medication that I was given when I hot hurt on my last deployment with the Navy. I can't wait to see how successful you will all become

[amberskies]

I too have spent a lot of time confused with the push back to ending death and extending human life. As more people see it as a true option, I hope they’ll move past the fear of death and see it’s all really quite possible! Yes to immortality! My life has changed after getting positive results from a NAD booster, NMN supplement. I hate aging and the illnesses it brings over time. This is why I am now taking NMN supplement by Vitruvin constantly.

[deborahneumann]

Every single one of these videos in this series I have been viewing of late is FASCINATING to me. I must have been a Scientist in my 'former' Life or I'm going to be one in my 'next'. LOL
However, THIS one has me sitting on the edge of my seat with such cliff-hanging enthusiasm for what is about to happen. True, I am viewing this in 2021 and I'm sure that a lot of what they spoke about has already happened. I can only hope that m-a-n-y people have been helped by now. And yes, I understand fully the Frankenstein aspect of it all. My only wish is for it ALL to help the Human Race in a positive way, in order to make Life safer and allow people a higher level of Hope and Trust that the medical field is actually 'helping' instead of 'harming'.
Thank you to EVERY one of the BRILLIANT Scientists out there, doing the right thing... for the right reason.

[jasond]

This video has so many views and yet I can't seem to meet anyone face to face that is into this stuff. This is so exciting to me. I can't understand why everyone is not into it.

[SuperNewf]

The people who pay for the research want to live forever.

[frankmoore]

Excellent panel and presentation. I have followed Robert O Becker's work for some time now and am thrilled that it is continuing. Becker's book The Body Electric, published in 1985 describes many of these same things this panel was talking about. Another interesting read on this is Healing is Voltage, by Dr. Jerry L. Tennant.

[davidhinds]

This is just incredible work well done people good to see these advances in science and the enhancement of further Human evolution closer to at least physical perfection

[nonegiven]

This video is so under rated, I think the title is wrong, . Awesome video.!

[cycling.guitarist]

What a great forum to discuss and learn regenerative medicine science. This opens so many different windows for humanity to deal with destructive events, and live a more meaningful life