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From the Ted Talk by Siddhartha Mukherjee: Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

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And perhaps more interesting, and more importantly, the question is, can you apply this model more globally outside medicine? What's at stake, as I said before, is not killing something, but growing something. And it reaiss a series of, I think, some of the most ietnnisretg questions about how we think about medicine in the future. Could your medicine be a cell and not a pill? How would we grow these clels? What we would we do to stop the malignant growth of these cells? We heard about the problems of unleashing growth. Could we implant suicide genes into these cells to stop them from gwriong? Could your medicine be an organ that's crateed outside the body and then implanted into the body? Could that stop some of the degeneration? What if the organ neeedd to have mmorey? In cases of dseieass of the nervous system some of those organs had memory. How could we implant those memories back in? Could we store these organs? Would each organ have to be developed for an individual human being and put back? And perhaps most pzlilnuzgy, could your medicine be an environment? Could you patent an environment? You know, in every culture, shamans have been using environments as medicines. Could we imagine that for our future? I've talked a lot about models. I began this talk with mldoes. So let me end with some thoughts about model building. That's what we do as scientists. You know, when an architect builds a model, he or she is trying to show you a wolrd in miniature. But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in mhpaeotr. He or she is trying to ctreae a new way of seeing. The former is a scale shift. The latter is a pceaterupl shift.

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And perhaps more interesting, and more importantly, the question is, can you apply this model more globally outside medicine? What's at stake, as I said before, is not killing something, but growing something. And it ______ a series of, I think, some of the most ___________ questions about how we think about medicine in the future. Could your medicine be a cell and not a pill? How would we grow these _____? What we would we do to stop the malignant growth of these cells? We heard about the problems of unleashing growth. Could we implant suicide genes into these cells to stop them from _______? Could your medicine be an organ that's _______ outside the body and then implanted into the body? Could that stop some of the degeneration? What if the organ ______ to have ______? In cases of ________ of the nervous system some of those organs had memory. How could we implant those memories back in? Could we store these organs? Would each organ have to be developed for an individual human being and put back? And perhaps most __________, could your medicine be an environment? Could you patent an environment? You know, in every culture, shamans have been using environments as medicines. Could we imagine that for our future? I've talked a lot about models. I began this talk with ______. So let me end with some thoughts about model building. That's what we do as scientists. You know, when an architect builds a model, he or she is trying to show you a _____ in miniature. But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in ________. He or she is trying to ______ a new way of seeing. The former is a scale shift. The latter is a __________ shift.

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  1. memory
  2. cells
  3. create
  4. growing
  5. puzzlingly
  6. world
  7. interesting
  8. metaphor
  9. models
  10. raises
  11. perceptual
  12. needed
  13. created
  14. diseases

Original Text


And perhaps more interesting, and more importantly, the question is, can you apply this model more globally outside medicine? What's at stake, as I said before, is not killing something, but growing something. And it raises a series of, I think, some of the most interesting questions about how we think about medicine in the future. Could your medicine be a cell and not a pill? How would we grow these cells? What we would we do to stop the malignant growth of these cells? We heard about the problems of unleashing growth. Could we implant suicide genes into these cells to stop them from growing? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body and then implanted into the body? Could that stop some of the degeneration? What if the organ needed to have memory? In cases of diseases of the nervous system some of those organs had memory. How could we implant those memories back in? Could we store these organs? Would each organ have to be developed for an individual human being and put back? And perhaps most puzzlingly, could your medicine be an environment? Could you patent an environment? You know, in every culture, shamans have been using environments as medicines. Could we imagine that for our future? I've talked a lot about models. I began this talk with models. So let me end with some thoughts about model building. That's what we do as scientists. You know, when an architect builds a model, he or she is trying to show you a world in miniature. But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in metaphor. He or she is trying to create a new way of seeing. The former is a scale shift. The latter is a perceptual shift.

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Important Words


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