Regenerative medicine
I’m still going through some of the cool material available at TED, and have been blown away by Alan Russell’s talk on stem cell research. The real-world applications are far more advanced than I had realized.
I was particularly interested in what he had to say about skin and the treatment of burns. One project I worked on a few years ago was to develop an e-learning course in the field of tissue tranplantation; I had to edit a lot of very gruesome video, about burns victims being treated with pigskin, or grafts from elsewhere on their body - precisely the kind of treatment that stem cells may render outdated.
And as for being able to stimulate organs and limbs to regenerate themselves… fantastic! Let’s hope it becomes mainstream ASAP! Here’s the clip. I would embed it, but that seems to break Wordpress, and I haven’t got time to work out the fix 
