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ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget?
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Our bodies are ticking time bombs. But stem cells could offer a solution, because one stem cell can become almost any cell in your body.
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Personalized stem cells are our opportunity to make medicines that truly work for me, for you and everyone.
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Instead of having a human look for those unwanted cells and remove them by hand, the machine identifies the unwanted cells and zaps them with a laser.
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In the future, we're going to have stem cell farms with stacks and stacks of hundreds and then eventually millions of cassettes, each cassette a personalized bank for one human.
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Today, taking medicine is, to some degree, trial and error. You don't really know if the drug is going to work for you until you put it in your body.
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One estimate in America currently is that something like ten percent of kids are being diagnosed with various conditions under the broad title of attention deficit disorder.
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It's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, and that you are probably a better multitasker. Bilingualism is healthy.
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In the future, we will all have the option of having our stem cells banked ahead of time so that any time you need new neurons, new muscle cells, new skin cells, they'd be generated from this bank.
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But as we age, our cells age, too. That's why our skin starts to sag, our cartilage wears away, and your five mile run might turn into a twenty minute walk.
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