- In the similar way that you smell
some cookies being baked, [chuckles]
and that can make you hungry, or you touch something that is hot,
you can think of it that essentially,
we can apply cues to that cell culture dish,
where the stem cells in a similar manner
will react to those cues.
And we can make the surface they grow on hard or soft,
we can make the environment they grow in
only able to fit, for example, a hundred stem cells
or able to fit 10,000 stem cells.
ANd when you change all those factors,
it changes the collective environment around the cell.
And we sort of tune those factors
in order to try to get the stem cells to differentiate
and create tissues in the manner that we see fit.