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The solution to replacing organs and limbs may be found by studying the natural regenerative DNA of other animals rather than relying solely on traditional medical engineering.
“Maybe it is going into our DNA, splicing into it that which regenerates organs and other animals. The animal kingdom. We have DNA in common with them. With other vertebrates, we are vertebrate, they are vertebrates. Let's go in and find out what is making that work.”
StarTalk · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 259K views on this topicMedical science has not failed to provide perfect replacement parts because the body is the product of millions of years of evolution, which is difficult to compete with in a short timeframe.
“I think the thing to keep in mind is like, medical science has had a couple hundred years, right? And the human body's had millions of years of evolution, so it's like it's, that's a hard thing to compete with. So I don't feel like it's a total failure.”
StarTalk · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 259K views on this topicThere is a lack of financial incentive for developing advanced prosthetics because there are relatively few people in America missing limbs compared to other health issues.
“So there's not a lot of people here in America, around the world you might find this, but not a lot of people here who are missing limbs, appendages, whatever, which means there's not a lot of money in it.”
StarTalk · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 259K views on this topicAdvances in AI, genomics, and cellular medicine provide unprecedented opportunities to detect disease early and reverse biological aging.
“it's a decade powered by AI uh which is the biggest Transformer of this field it's powered by crisper by Gene therapies by single cell sequencing by all these technologies that are helping us understand why people age how to slow it stop it perhaps reverse it”
Rich Roll · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 51K views on this topicEarly detection through advanced diagnostic tools is essential to preventing disease rather than simply treating it after it has progressed.
“I want to prevent it like early detection with the advances that we're seeing in these diagnostic tools that can literally identify diseases you know in their very early stages when they actually can be treated I think is really the future of where you know Healthcare should be going”
Rich Roll · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 51K views on this topicIt is unlikely that viruses will develop resistance to far-UVC light because it damages the virus's RNA in a way that is difficult to repair.
“it will be very very hard for a virus to evolve which is able to somehow repair RNA damage anywhere within its genome it's a little different from a drug so we certainly don't expect that and there's no evidence that a candy virus has appeared in in terms of UV sensitivity”
TED · Aug 2020 · 1 episode · 41K views on this topicElectronic health records have failed to transform medicine and often made the experience worse for both physicians and patients.
“I wrote a book 10 years ago called The Digital Doctor, which was really about our transition from paper to digital. That book is a very grumpy book. It's like, how the hell did we go from paper to digital and in some ways make things worse, in some ways make the lives of both patients and doctors ha”
Freakonomics Radio Network · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 10K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.