Medical Biotech

In April 2016, Let’s Talk Science volunteer Daniel Tarade donated stem cells to help a person who needed a stem cell transplant to survive. Learn what stem cells are, how and why people donate, and what Daniel’s experience was like.

Medical biotechnology allows scientists to make changes to the genomes of living things. What are the pros and cons of having access to techniques like these?

When the cells of Henrietta Lacks were collected by medical researchers after her death in 1951, it changed the future of medicine.

When a person has cancer, CAR-T Therapy uses their own cells to destroy the cancer cells in their body.