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From the Ted Talk by Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue

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But that brings me to lesson number two: cells do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an identity crisis here, because structural engineers build bigrdes and big things, computer engineers, cruopetms, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's reimnd ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept. Let's remember that our cells sustain our lives in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also wrtoh noting that clles also mediate our eiecxrpene of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, tsate and selml is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we expand our sense of evtonriemannl stewardship to include the ecosystem of our own bodeis?

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But that brings me to lesson number two: cells do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an identity crisis here, because structural engineers build _______ and big things, computer engineers, _________, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's ______ ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept. Let's remember that our cells sustain our lives in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also _____ noting that _____ also mediate our __________ of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, _____ and _____ is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we expand our sense of _____________ stewardship to include the ecosystem of our own ______?

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  1. cells
  2. smell
  3. environmental
  4. bridges
  5. worth
  6. taste
  7. bodies
  8. experience
  9. remind
  10. computers

Original Text


But that brings me to lesson number two: cells do all the work. In a sense, tissue engineers have a bit of an identity crisis here, because structural engineers build bridges and big things, computer engineers, computers, but what we are doing is actually building enabling technologies for the cells themselves. What does this mean for us? Let's do something really simple. Let's remind ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept. Let's remember that our cells sustain our lives in a very real way. "We are what we eat," could easily be described as, "We are what our cells eat." And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human. But it's also worth noting that cells also mediate our experience of life. Behind every sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us. It begs the question: shall we expand our sense of environmental stewardship to include the ecosystem of our own bodies?

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