Stem Cells: The Hype and the Hope | Deepak Srivastava, MD | TEDxMarin

Human regenerative medicine will succeed, the questions are when and how. Dr. Srivastava’s laboratory discovered the genetic basis for several human cardiac birth defects and revealed complex gene networks that regulate stem cells to adopt a cardiac cell fate and subsequently fashion a functioning heart. He has leveraged this knowledge to convert scar-forming cells in the heart directly into muscle-like cells to regenerate damaged hearts.
Director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Srivastava received his B.S. from Rice University, M.D. from University of Texas, trained in pediatrics at UCSF, and in pediatric cardiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Srivastava is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
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[@derigel1755]

The problem is when, would we live long enough to witness the arrival of this wonderful day?

[@azzamjaber7014]

Amazing..awesome talk.. thanks..

[@sebastianaguiarbrunemeier9192]

Very nice talk. Also using SCs in the heart is less risky with respect to cancer because the heart is mostly post-mitotic.

[@Westwood1816]

Are you a scientist or doctor?

[@PJBoy]

That’s why heart cancer is incredible rare

[@nekos-areyoucomingtothepar3958]

We are talking abput going against big pharmaceutical companies that generates over hunders of billion dollar a year.
Not gonna happen. At the end of the day the only things that works is money.

[@thelastcipher9135]

I believe reversing aging will not be a one-time treatment. It will be a repetitive one. Reversing aging will make big pharma richer.

[@johnny2303]

Yes and where did that source code come from?

[@christineglenn319]

when is this going to happen.

[@mattgamin8729]

dude, just tell me if the therapy works.

[@indervirhundal7672]

Giostar, advancells and swiss medica

[@saadaly1525]

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[@glory70x]

Intravenous stem cell's? Safe?

[@billytheweasel]

Hard to find useful stuff on pubmed to determine the efficacy of this stuff

[@cocokim7473]

L

[@seekeroftruth1200]

When will stem cells make blind people see again?

[@absba9]

true. the results were published recently through the mayo clinic.

[@JamesGeiger23]

I'm not sure when, but I hope it's soon. I have Retinitis Pigmentosa, and I really hope that my eyes can be cured with this sort of manner.