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Animal Research Dramatically Reduced

December 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Cutting edge medicine, Stem cells, Surgery

Many of us don’t want animals to be used at all in research - even if we will thereby live longer; however, at the same time, we do want the medical advances which such research allows.
Better medical treatment of Alzheimers Disease or cancer, for example would be most welcome - especially if it was [...]

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Woman’s ‘Windpipe’ Regrown with Stem Cells

December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Biotechnology, Cutting edge medicine, Heart disease, Stem cells, Surgery, longevity

Claudia Castillo suffered from tuberculosis for years, until a major trauma happened this year - a collapse of part of her windpipe leading to the left lung.
At fist, surgeons thought she would have to have her left lung removed in a life-threatening operation. However in a breakthrough for longevity, a [...]

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Live A Long Life - Swallow A Nanobot

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Cutting edge medicine, Surgery

Living a long life will be much easier as we develop ‘nanobots’ with the ability to travel within our bodies. These will be programmed to carry out various tasks.
Nanobot Tasks
Some of these will be:

Delivering drugs to precise locations - for example, direct to disease locations, rather than in the blood stream. Treatment [...]

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