TED - Should we design humans?
Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering
This talk questions the harmfulness of bio-engineering in animals, cells and organisms.
He talks about if its ethical especially changing the cell structure of animals, hooking up animals to computers. Although by putting technologies into animals could be very useful for future activities such as using the robotic living bugs for perhaps a war zone using their cameras etc. We are now at a point where we are creating creatures for our own use. For example growing body parts in animals and transferring them to humans but the question is.. is this ethical?
Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone
This talk is about finding creative ways in finding products to use for medical purposes. The main message I got while watching this was that even simple materials can elicit powerful biological responses.