Current Issues with Organs
Ted Talk Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
In the last 10 years the number of patients has doubled while at the same time the number of actual transplants has __________________________________.
What is the name of the field that has to do with this topic? ______________________________
When was the first book (about the culture of organs) published? _____________
What are the 3 challenges to culturing organs?
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List three things that we can engineer:
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Where will the next generation possibly print it’s cells? _________________________________
90 percent of all patients on the transplant list are waiting for what organ? ______________________
Could you use the printed kidney as a functional working kidney? _______________________________
The Skin Gun
View the skin gun video and then look in your textbook to find the definition and description of stem cells. Write one paragraph to describe their function:
Tanzania Albinos
Watch the video and then tell why albinos’ lives are threatened in Tanzania:
If you lived in Tanzania, what do you think you could do about this situation?
Go to the following website:
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/background/org_transplant.html
List the five principles that could be used to govern an organ procurement system:
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It is your group’s job to explain your principle and to list as many pros and cons.
