Alie Ward

Can we like prove that it works?

Yeah, that's a big job.

So pluripotent, side note, means that a cell is kind of a blank canvas.

It's down to become a lot of different kinds of cells and tissues.

And scientists are working on making these pluripotent cells for the people off the shelf options instead of custom.

So it's kind of like pret-a-porter instead of couture.

What's not changing fast is history.

And Mary covers the first silicone breasts like syringes just willy-nilly raw-dogged straight into the flesh and also looks at techniques that have been used for years as she chats with a Cedars-Sinai urologist about vaginas over Italian food.

Mackenzie W., first-time question asker, wanted to know, in what ways can this field provide gender-affirming care?

And are there applications for technology that can help trans folks?

And I feel like you did touch on that in the book.

And was a lot of that surprising to you?

Or was there something from that that surprised you or that left you thinking differently?

Alex Minor wanted to know, in all your deep dives into the strange corners of science, what is a bizarre factor moment that didn't make it into a book but still lives kind of rent free in your brain?

And I don't know if there's NDAs that are involved here, but if you can spill whatever you spill, I'm all ears.

They're like, let's get this done.

Let's get this.

You know, we actually eat more.

I'm really hungry.

I'm just not even tired.