Living Medicines - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard

Alison Woollard explains how we can now use cell therapy to create living medicines, with help from Natalie Mount from Cell Therapy Catapult.
Watch the full third lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2013/life-fantastic/could-i-live-forever?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

Alison Woollard gave the 2013 Christmas Lectures "Life Fantastic" about the frontiers of developmental biology, uncovering the remarkable transformation of a single cell into a complex organism.

The third lecture "Could I Live Forever?", where this clip is from, explores the new insights developmental biology has given us into how cells work.

Watch the full series:
https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2013/life-fantastic?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

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