Replacement parts: “We can rebuild him, we have the technology”
Regenerative medicine will replace, restore, maintain, or enhance tissue and organ functions, dramatically improving patients’ health and quality of life, and potentially reducing the cost of their care. Tissue engineering will heal diabetic foot ulcers, reducing the need for amputations; organs grown in a lab will ease our dependence on donor transplants; and tendons, cartilage, and bone regrown with autologous cells will be used to repair injuries and joints.
- Miriam Lueck Avery's blog
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Using Regenerative Medicine to Preview Biological Responses
At IFTF, we're always looking for new tools to better understand future possibilities--and our 2010 Science, Technology and Well-Being map highlighted a new tool for personal health foresight: Stem cell research. The basic idea is this: the tools of regenerative medicine, which now enable scientists to, for example, engineer skin cells into other kinds of cells, such as heart cells, will enable scientists to test out effects of different kinds of treatments inside of petri dishes, rather than inside our bodies.
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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SIGNALS: Turing Test, Regenerative Medicine, Pakistan, Coal, Spy Plane, Carbon, Energy, Kinect
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- Sean Ness's blog
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5 Links For A Longer, Healthier Life
Daily supplements? Check. Walking 3 miles a day? Check. Aversion to physical risk? Definitely. Signing up for cryonics? In process.
Yes, I think it's fair to say I think a lot about life extension.
- Alexandra Carmichael's blog
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How To Grow A New Joint Inside Your Body
Say you have arthritis, as 80 million Americans do. Your hip has degenerated to the point that you have trouble walking, or standing for too long, or even sitting for too long.
Your doctor gives you a choice. She can replace your hip with a ball-and-socket joint made of metal and plastic, or she can try a new procedure that lets your body regrow a new hip joint from your own cells.
- Alexandra Carmichael's blog
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