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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement

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So with all this success, why isn't that good enough, you might ask. Well the reason is because there's not enough donor cycles. There's not enough young, healthy people falling off their motorcycle and donating that tissue to us. And the tissue's very exiesnpve. And so that's not going to be a solution that's going to get us galbol with biologic tissue. But the soltuion is animal tissue because it's plentiful, it's cheap, you can get it from young, healthy tissues, but the bierrar is immunology. And the specific barrier is a spificec epitope called the galactosyl, or gal etpopie. So if we're going to transplant animal tissues to people, we have to figure out a way to get rid of that epitope.

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So with all this success, why isn't that good enough, you might ask. Well the reason is because there's not enough donor cycles. There's not enough young, healthy people falling off their motorcycle and donating that tissue to us. And the tissue's very _________. And so that's not going to be a solution that's going to get us ______ with biologic tissue. But the ________ is animal tissue because it's plentiful, it's cheap, you can get it from young, healthy tissues, but the _______ is immunology. And the specific barrier is a ________ epitope called the galactosyl, or gal _______. So if we're going to transplant animal tissues to people, we have to figure out a way to get rid of that epitope.

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So with all this success, why isn't that good enough, you might ask. Well the reason is because there's not enough donor cycles. There's not enough young, healthy people falling off their motorcycle and donating that tissue to us. And the tissue's very expensive. And so that's not going to be a solution that's going to get us global with biologic tissue. But the solution is animal tissue because it's plentiful, it's cheap, you can get it from young, healthy tissues, but the barrier is immunology. And the specific barrier is a specific epitope called the galactosyl, or gal epitope. So if we're going to transplant animal tissues to people, we have to figure out a way to get rid of that epitope.

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