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Forums - Gaming Discussion - VG Chartz Tech/Futurology Thread - 10 “Game Changing” Technologies Poised to Transform the World in 2015

This is something I've been fairly interested in my whole life. I like the future whats to come what the world can be, I love seeing new technology that people invent to make the world a better place. I'm curious whether some people on VG Chartz share this interest, so I'm going to post daily top articles of new tech/futurology information. Anyone is welcomed to do the same and discuss the article/image/video whatever it is.

Let's start with a couple.

 

 

 Lateral view of a stage 15 chick embryo showing the distribution of Sonic Hedgehog protein (purple). Abigail Tucker/ MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology/ Wellcome Images.

 

As regenerative medicine and stem cell technologies continue to progress, so the list of tissues and organs that can be grown from scratch – and potentially replaced – continues to grow. In the past few years, researchers have used stem cells to grow windpipes, bladders, urethras and vaginas in the lab, and, in some cases, successfully transplanted them into patients.

Others are making progress in growing liver and heart tissue; one team in London is busy growing blood vessels, noses and ears; and some have even managed to grow tiny chunks of brain tissue, the most complex of all the tissues in the human body. Now, researchers in Germany report that they have grown complete spinal cords from embryonic stem cells.

The rest is here, can you imagine if your really rich one day and decide to make replicates of all your organs to put in storage for when you need it, incredible.

 

This one is a reddit thread, very intersting read, whether it's possible or not is another question. It's about DARPA working on atom replicators/molecular manufacturing.

Video explaining atom replicator here



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I still thing stem cells research is a waste of time since we will become androids in a 20-40 years from now.

Anyhow if the spinal cord regenaration is a big jump for medecine, I wonder how many years until brain cell can be replaced.



RenCutypoison said:
I still thing stem cells research is a waste of time since we will become androids in a 20-40 years from now.

Anyhow if the spinal cord regenaration is a big jump for medecine, I wonder how many years until brain cell can be replaced.

The bigger question is how many years until we actually understand the damn brain.



Gilgamesh said:
RenCutypoison said:
I still thing stem cells research is a waste of time since we will become androids in a 20-40 years from now.

Anyhow if the spinal cord regenaration is a big jump for medecine, I wonder how many years until brain cell can be replaced.

The bigger question is how many years until we actually understand the damn brain.


If nuclear power teached me one thing, it's that we don't need to understand something to make use of it.

Brain tchernobyl when ? =p



Great thread!

I really like to read these kind of news.



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Awesome idea.



They've been working on stem cells for a very long time.



    

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I can't wait till we have fully succeeded in regenerative tissues/organs/etc cause then I can finally take my kinky sex to the next level!



                  

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This is something I'll be waiting for.



Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot

  • The OpenWorm global project is making a 'digital' worm
  • Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans
  • It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans
  • By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life
  • They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine
  • In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world
  • Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm