The Star Trek sick bay may still be a ways off, though
10 Top Australian Scientists Predict Major Medical Advances
‘Then, Now…Imagine’, a new report compiled by Research Australia in consultation with 10 of the country’s leading health and medical researchers including two Nobel Prize winners and four Australians of the Year, predicts individual gene profiling from blood samples will revolutionise healthcare within ten years.
2006 Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, who discovered the technology that led to the newly released cervical cancer vaccine, said the upshot will be the ability to develop personalised healthcare plans — a roadmap for health from the day of birth.
Growing new body parts
Further advances in understanding how ‘blank’ or ‘uncoded’ cells in their very early stages of development switch on to become specific types of cells, like liver, skin and nerve cells, mean cures for diseases like Parkinson’s, Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis will be entirely possible. With the right prompts these ‘stem cells’ — which everybody has – can develop into organs and tissue to replaced damaged areas.
Humans as commodities is going to be a major breakthrough. Growing embryos to later stages to get the organs.
What will happen in ten years? Insurance companies will screen out people with bad genetic profiles. Only superclean genes need apply. The rest can go on Medicaid.
#2, I am afraid you might be correct. But isn’t that the American way?
And humans already are commodities.
#1 — still don’t know anything about stem cell research, eh?
Dear god
In reference to #5,
Please forgive those who most reverently and ignorantly cry your name for they know not what they preach. As the one who gave his (her) only child so that we might know there is something better then stepping in sheep shit, some still prefer the sheep shit. While it is a good fertilizer, it does rot sandals and stains the carpets.
Forgive them that can not see what your son told us. For their eyes all have cataracts, their ears wax build up, and their minds are paralyzed with the fear that they will miss your call to an unearthly heaven.
Forgive them that think they know better then you. For they put words down on paper and pretend it to have reverence and be your thought. For they stand in high places and tell the masses how great thou are and to send more money. And they say they speak with your authority.
Forgive them that will ignore the tools you gave us for a better life. For you may lead a donkey to water but you can’t always get the stubborn ass to drink.
Advances in microsurgery and the capacity of ultrasound to monitor development will soon see unborn babies undergoing complex surgery…
People were flipping Tom Cruise crap about the potential for hurting his unborn child with an ultrasound machine.
How much ultrasound time will be needed for “complex” surgery??
You guys are all dumb asses!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Ralph! FUCK YOU MAN!!!!!!!!!!