Winner of a Peabody Award, Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly program about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas." We are produced and distributed by American Public Media and currently heard on over 200 public radio stations across the U.S. and globally via the Web and podcast.Krista takes a narrative, or first-person, approach to religious and philosophical conversation. She draws out the intersection of theology and human experience, of grand religious ideas and real life. A weekly national program since July 2001, Speaking of Faith is not so much about religion per se, but about drawing out compelling and challenging voices of wisdom on the most important subjects of 21st-century life; thereby creating a different kind of in-depth, revealing, illuminating dialogue than can be elicited by traditional journalistic treatments and debates.
August 28, 2009 - University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular RepairFor our public radio program, "Stem Cells, Untold Stories," we toured Doris Taylor's lab. Here, she shows us the phases of regenerating tiny, rodent hearts suspended in elaborate architectural glass bulbs with tubes feeding them ? one lifeless with old cells; another one stage further, a pale "scaffold" ready for stem cells to be injected; and finally a regenerated heart ? pink, pumping, alive, and beating on its own. Ta...
August 28, 2009 - University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair For our public radio program, "Stem Cells, Untold Stories," we toured Doris Taylor's lab. Here, she shows Krista live heart cells beating in a dish. To watch more videos on Taylor's works with regenerating hearts and stem cells and to download an mp3 of the produced show, visit speakingoffaith.org/programs/2009/stem-cells/. Produced by Andy Dayton and Trent Gilliss for Speaking of Faith.
August 28, 2009 - University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair For our public radio program, "Stem Cells, Untold Stories," we toured Doris Taylor's lab. Here, she shows Krista and senior producer Mitch Hanley a pig's heart and liver that have had their cells removed. To watch more videos on Taylor's works with regenerating hearts and stem cells and to download an mp3 of the produced show, visit speakingoffaith.org/programs/2009/stem-cells/. Produced by Andy Dayton and Trent Gilliss...
A conversation with Dr. Doris Taylor