New breakthrough drug reverses hearing loss and consigns hearing aids to the bin
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hearing loss affects everyone at one stage or another, but now it’s increasingly looking like hearing loss can be reversed thanks to a new regenerative medicine drug from MIT. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Researchers are going to grow new organs in patients for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine needing a transplant but rather than having one the doctors just regrow you a new organ in vivo … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
World’s first living robots made by AI surprise scientists by spontaneously reproducing themselves
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI, supercomputers and scientists created the world’s first living programable robots from frog cells, and they just spontaneously reproduced themselves surprising the everyone … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
This new nanochip re-programs human cells and tissue to cure disease
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are some examples, such as internal injuries and heart attacks, where it would be great to be able to turn one kind of cell into another kind of cell on demand, now we can. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...
Regenerative medicine breakthrough regrows mouse toes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When some animals loose a limb they can regrow them, and slowly we’re unlocking the secrets of mammalian regeneration. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Recently teams in the US managed unlock the regenerative secrets of Zebra fish, re-activate...
Scientists have unlocked the secret to whole body regeneration
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans genetic ability to regenerate body parts naturally was “turned off” millions of years ago, but now scientists have found a switch that turns it on – in worms. When it comes to regeneration some animals are capable of amazing feats. For example, if...
World first as scientists re-grow a frogs amputated leg using a “silk bioreactor”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some of us are unfortunate enough to loose a limb, or multiple limbs, and one day this technology, and technologies like it, could help us regrow them. Like something, out of a science fiction movie or everyone’s favourite “Merc with a mouth”, Deadpool, researchers...
FDA approves first spray on skin treatment for burns
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Treating third degree burns today often involves skin grafts and more pain for the patient, spray on skin will put an end to that misery. Over the past couple of years we’ve gotten increasingly good at 3D printing human skin and making artificial skin...
New Smart Bandage heals wounds faster and talks to your doctor
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smart bandages that can heal wounds faster, identify disease and talk with doctors will help doctors track how well wounds are healing and help people heal faster When you think of medical 3D printing applications, and there are plenty of them to choose from,...
Healing touch, Regenerative Medicine breakthrough reprograms skin cells
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tissue Nanotransference technology could help us heal organs quickly, and on demand, and put an end to the need for immunosuppressant drugs and the rejection of transplants This week scientists from Ohio State University announced a “breakthrough” in Regenerative medicine, the field of healthcare...
Indian regulators green light two companies to bring people back from the dead
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technology is pushing the boundaries on life extension, and now death, and there are an increasing number of voices that think death is no longer inevitable. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
3D printed cartilage breakthrough offers millions of suffers new hope
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cartilage is unique in that it doesn’t grow back, leaving Arthritis patients, and cancer and injury victims with no option but surgery, now though 3D bioprinting offers them all new hope. Loosing a part of your body, such as an ear, knee or a...
Scientists have grown a human stomach in a petri dish
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The more organs scientists can create outside of the human body the greater the benefits to human healthcare, this latest breakthrough takes us another step closer to realising the potential of regenerative medicine. When scientists want to understand how a drug works, they often...
New genetic discovery will one day help humans regenerate damaged spinal chords
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to regrow, repair and replace damaged parts of our bodies using Regenerative Medicine could help humans live longer, healthier lives – and it could potentially help us live forever. One of the reasons why there are so many scientists today focusing on...
New regenerative bandage heals wounds four times faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bandages that not just cover a wound but that help the damaged tissue regenerate faster will help improve peoples lives and get them back to functioning normally faster. At some point in their lives, 15 percent of people with diabetes will develop a painful and...
Generation Z, the first immortal generation?
It’s a matter of When, not If we solve Death and Generation Z could be the first generation to experience Immortality in their lifetimes. Today we can reverse paralysis, restore sight, print hearts, eliminate disease and transfer memories, age is a quirk of genetics, nanotech is a game changer and only Darwinism...
