User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2011 July 17 08:29:02 UTC

More on tissue engineering
Regrowing organs or parts of organs is an exciting and rapidly progressing area of regenerative medicine.

I started this blog post to include some more embedded videos about regrowing the trachea in response to AssassinDrakes blog post. I attended SENS4 in 2008 and it was very interesting albeit overwhelming. I do remember one talk in particular that was very good. It was about regrowing a windpipe using a mold and scaffold. They actually used part an actual trachea but the finished product used her own patient specific cells.

The videos are now on youtube but it was definitely far more clear at the actual conference. The video is in three parts and here is part 1. The most interesting content is in part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B5Dk3RSaf4&feature=related

Embedding for part 1 doesn't seem to be working so well for some reason so I have simply included the hyperlink above.

I have embedded another video with media coverage. I'm not where this procedure was carried out but they generally consider to be a kind of "holy grail" medical treatment.

I did also notice that Iran seems to be quite involved in tissue engineering as well.

This is a good step in the right direction is many times more civilised than organ transplants but today's medicine is no where near radical enough to carry out the full revolution that require to make unlimited youthfulness available to all people of planet earth.

Purpose motive vs profit motive
Rejuvepedia operates to encourage a culture where health is wealth and health is more important than hording money or gold. As part of this we must remember our purpose motive. It is far better to be healthy and youthful than it is to be old and have a pile of money like Scourge McDuck. An interesting video has come up about this about profit vs purpose motivation and it says that for mechanical work profit reward does encourage harder work but when it comes to cogitative work the hardest driving motive is in fact purpose not profit.

I hope this video is an interesting watch as try to gain our perspective on what we need to focus on to achieve successful outcomes for this project.