Replacing body parts?

Part 2
NB: there is no question about the 1st part of the video (the part going from the start to 0’52’’) This
is an introduction to help you understand what the video is about.

1. answer the following questions.

1. What happens when you remove the cells from an organ?

2. What is a scaffold?

3. What happened 6 years ago? What was then the main question?

4. What did Dr OTT get when he finally succeed in getting rid of the cells in the heart?

5. Why Does Dr Taylor say it’s “both simple and complicated”.

6. What did Dr Ott successfully did in a rat in Massachusetts? What conclusion does Neil draw?

7. What happened to Claudia? Explain.

8. Why was she home after 4 days?

9. What is the next step in terms of scaffolding?

True or False. Justify

1. Dr OTT tried a lot of different chemical combination to achieve his goal. T F

2. Dr Ott finally found an Enzyme that could do the job T F

3.Injecting cells in a scaffold “resurrect” the organ. T F

4. It takes a week to have a beating heart in a jar. T F

5. Theses scenarios could become reality in a few decades. T F

Fill in the blanks.

__________________ of __________________ showed the scaffold to be __________________,
down to the __________________ blood vessels. And we now know that this technique works with
many organs, including __________________ ones.

This is __________________ the scaffold of a __________________. Who knew a heart had a full
__________________? But it essentially has no cells, dead or alive. It's __________________. You
can see the blood vessels here, the __________________ of the heart. You can see the
__________________.