- So my lab, we work at the interface
between engineering and biology.
And that simply means that we're trying
to engineer the human body,
particularly the brain and spinal cord.
And if we can create models of the brain and spinal cord
here in our lab, then we can use those models
to study how those organs develop
and to study how they go wrong
when you have some type of disease or a defect
in those particular tissues.
So engineers in general take raw materials,
such as oil or trees, and we turn them into usable products,
such as gasoline or paper.
And so for my lab, we're trying to create human tissues.
And so we start with human stem cells.