Tag Archives: Medicine

Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases? – Greg Foot

Discover how scientists are using crowdsourced DNA to find the causes of untreatable diseases, and developing new drug treatments for them. — When scientists don’t know the cause of a medical condition, developing a drug treatment takes significant trial and error, and lots of money— which is why we only have drugs for a small […]

Giving the Gift of Life through Organ Donation: Chris Barry at TEDxFlourCity

Dr. Chris Barry is a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center. In this talk, Chris discusses the power of modern transplant surgery to touch people’s lives. He also talks about the obstacles that prevent our society from realizing its true potential to help others through organ donation. His talk resounds […]