Pg 126 "The person who makes no mistakes is making the biggest mistakes."
"When most people have a dream or goal, they get excited until they start to confront how they're going to achieve it. Since they don't yet know how, they get demoralized. They lose the sense of certainty that breakthroughs require. Soon they stop trying--they give up."
Pg. 129 "The beautiful thing about the human mind is it's like a quantum computer. It can take in so much information and then just collapse into a solution right away."
Pg. 131 "When you do something big and bold, it takes 99 nos to get to yes. And you need to welcome and embrace those nos, because every one of them is one step closer to that yes.
Pg. 136 "Why can't we build a pipeline of off-the-shelf organs, to be ready at an hour's notice? One solution may be found in the humble pig, in an inter-species 'xenotransplant.' By a fluke of nature, the organs of an adult pig are close to the same size and shape of their human equivalents. But there's a catch: vicious, hyper-acute rejection.
Pg. 139 "United Therapeutics is working on another platform: building organs from scratch using the patient's own stem cells for tissue regeneration."
Pg. 144 "A startup called LyGenesis is working on repurposing lymph nodes. The human body contains around 600 lymph nodes, aka lymph glands. What is a lymph node? It's a small organ that our immune system uses to manufacture T cells and fight off infections by trapping bacteria or viruses. That's why your lymph nodes may swell when you have a cold. They need to get larger to manufacture more immune cells. If liver cells are injected or engrafted into a lymph node, they will grow and multiply until they form a functional, potentially life-saving mini-liver.
"When most people have a dream or goal, they get excited until they start to confront how they're going to achieve it. Since they don't yet know how, they get demoralized. They lose the sense of certainty that breakthroughs require. Soon they stop trying--they give up."
Pg. 129 "The beautiful thing about the human mind is it's like a quantum computer. It can take in so much information and then just collapse into a solution right away."
Pg. 131 "When you do something big and bold, it takes 99 nos to get to yes. And you need to welcome and embrace those nos, because every one of them is one step closer to that yes.
Pg. 136 "Why can't we build a pipeline of off-the-shelf organs, to be ready at an hour's notice? One solution may be found in the humble pig, in an inter-species 'xenotransplant.' By a fluke of nature, the organs of an adult pig are close to the same size and shape of their human equivalents. But there's a catch: vicious, hyper-acute rejection.
Pg. 139 "United Therapeutics is working on another platform: building organs from scratch using the patient's own stem cells for tissue regeneration."
Pg. 144 "A startup called LyGenesis is working on repurposing lymph nodes. The human body contains around 600 lymph nodes, aka lymph glands. What is a lymph node? It's a small organ that our immune system uses to manufacture T cells and fight off infections by trapping bacteria or viruses. That's why your lymph nodes may swell when you have a cold. They need to get larger to manufacture more immune cells. If liver cells are injected or engrafted into a lymph node, they will grow and multiply until they form a functional, potentially life-saving mini-liver.
