Some of you may remember that.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration?

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

A health status of a nation parallels development of that nation.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

This is another example of patient specific stem cells that were engineered from someone with retinitis pigmentosa.

It goes around the ventricle and, as I showed you in the beginning, also around the atrium. It goes all the way up and covers both the left and right side.

There's no comparison at all.

Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular disease epidemic.

So, a solution to the problem, then, would be to build a device that could mimic the actions of that front end circuitry and send signals to the retina's output cells, and they can go back to doing their normal job of sending signals to the brain.

One out of two of you women will be impacted by cardiovascular disease in your lifetime.

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Yeah, it's called Retinitis Pigmentosa.

So let me start in on that problem.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

Colors are flavonoids and polyphenols.

It's a very difficult procedure, but it is possible to photograph this image.

But fingerprints and retinas are unique.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

They receive comprehensive eye exams.

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300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Evidence of an extradural hematoma.

At that time, much of the fat in the American diet was still not directly linked to coronary heart disease.

They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment.

I found out the the following.

And, how come you can't detect colors when it's dark?

So I have for a long time said that what we really needed was a rapid diagnostic.

And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

little bit and show you how a normal retina works first so you can see the problem that we were trying to solve.

It'll just bake your retinas.

There are some great resources out there.

And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease, but look at cancer.

It is interesting that in the United States, the most significant health care budget goes to cardiovascular disease care, whether it's private or public.

These are years that we could get.

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Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

And we then can re perfuse the liver with cells, preserving the blood vessel tree.