Medical technologies of the future. Teeth will become virus detectors

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There is no doubt that our society is currently develops much faster than in the past. This also applies to medical technology, which today has achieved incredible high level, But what awaits us ahead?

Many technologies have already been successfully applied, but some of them are still waiting in the wings, despite the fact that they have already there is evidence of their effectiveness. In the future, we will be able to heal wounds in a matter of minutes, grow full-fledged organs, bones and cells, create equipment that runs on human energy, restore damaged brains, and much more.

Here are collected the most interesting technologies that have already been invented, but are not yet widely used.

1) Gel will help stop bleeding

Usually some discoveries in the field of medicine happen during for long years complex expensive research. However, sometimes scientists deal with random discoveries, or a group of young promising researchers suddenly comes across something interesting.

For example, thanks to young researchers Joe Landolina And Isaac Miller was born Veti-Gel– a creamy substance that instantly seals the wound and stimulates the healing process.

This anti-bleeding gel creates a synthetic structure that mimics extracellular matrix- tissue of the intercellular space that holds cells together. We suggest you take a look video which demonstrates the gel in action.

This is how we will stop the bleeding: technology of the future (video):

In this example, you can see how blood oozes from a cut piece of pork meat and how it instantly stops when using the gel.

In other tests, Landorino used a gel to stop bleeding carotid artery in a rat. If this product becomes widely used in medicine, it will save millions of lives, especially in war zones.

2) Magnetic levitation helps grow organs

Growing artificial lung tissue by using magnetic levitation- sounds like a phrase from a science fiction book, but now it is reality. In 2010 Glauco Sousa and his team began to look for a way to create realistic human tissue using nanomagnets, which allow tissue grown in the laboratory to rise above the nutrient solution.

As a result, we got most realistic organ tissue from all artificial fabrics. Typically, tissues created in the laboratory grow in Petri dishes, and if the tissue is expanded, it begins to grow in three-dimensional form, which allows the construction of more complex layers of cells.

Cell growth "in 3D format" is the best growth simulation V natural conditions in the human body. This is a huge step forward in the creation of artificial organs, which can then be implanted into the patient's body.

3) Artificial cells imitating natural ones

Medical technology today is moving in the direction of finding opportunities grow human tissue outside the body, in other words, scientists are striving to find a way to create realistic "spare parts" to help everyone in need.

Synthetic gel fiber network

If any organ refuses to work, we replace it with a new one, thus updating the entire system. Today this idea is being turned to the cellular level: scientists have developed cream that imitates the action of certain cells.

This material is created in clumps only 7.5 billionths of a meter wide. Cells have your own type of skeleton, known as cytoskeleton, which is formed from proteins.

Cytoskeleton of cells

A synthetic cream will replace this cytoskeleton in the cell, and if the cream is applied to a wound, it able to replace all cells that were lost due to injury. Fluids will pass through the cells, allowing the wound to heal, and the artificial skeleton will protect against bacteria from entering the body.

4) Brain cells from urine - a new technology in medicine

Oddly enough, scientists have found a way to obtain human brain cells from urine. IN Institute of Biomedicine and Health in Guangzhou, China, a group of biologists used unwanted urine cells to create them using leukoviruses progenitor cells, which our body uses as building blocks for brain cells.

The most valuable thing about this method is that Newly created neurons are not capable of causing tumors, at least as shown by experiments with mice.

In the past, they were used for this purpose embryonic stem cells, however one of side effects such cells had something in them high probability tumors appeared after transplantation. After a few weeks, cells obtained from urine are already began to form into neurons absolutely without any unwanted mutations.

The obvious advantage of this method is that raw materials for new cells are very affordable. Scientists are also able to create cells for a patient from his own urine, which increases the chances that the cells will take root.

5) Medical clothing of the future - electric underwear

Incredible but true: electric underwear will help save hundreds of lives. When a patient lies in the hospital for days, weeks, months without being able to get out of bed, he may develop bedsores - open wounds, which are formed due to lack of circulation and compression of tissues.

It turns out that bedsores can be fatal. Approximately 60 thousand people deaths due to pressure ulcers and related infections every year in the United States alone.

Canadian explorer Sean Dukelov developed electric underwear, which was called Smart-E-Pants. With the help of such clothing, the patient's body receives a small electrical shock every 10 minutes.

The effect of such electric shocks is the same as if the patient were moving. naturally. The current activates the muscles, increases blood circulation in the area, effectively prevents bedsores, allowing you to save the patient's life.

6) Effective pollen vaccine

pollen– one of the most common allergens in the world, which is due to the structure of pollen. The outer shell of pollen is incredibly strong, which allows it stay whole, even passing through digestive system person.

This is precisely the property that any vaccine should have: many vaccines lose effectiveness because they can't stand stomach acid, if used orally. Vaccines break down and become useless.

Researchers from Technical University Texas are looking for ways to use pollen to create life-saving vaccines for soldiers deployed overseas. Principal Investigator Harvinder Gill has the goal of penetrating the pollen grain and removing allergens, and instead place the vaccine in an empty shell. Scientists believe this opportunity will change the way vaccines and medicines are used.

7) Artificial bones using a 3D printer

We all remember very well that if we break an arm or leg, we must during long weeks wear a cast so that the bones grow together. It seems that such technologies are already a thing of the past. Using a 3D printer, scientists from University of Washington developed a hybrid material that has the same properties (strength and flexibility) like real bones.

This “model” is placed at the site of injury, and real bone begins to grow around it. After the process is completed, the model is crushed.

3D printer that is used – ProMetal, it is accessible to almost anyone. The problem is the material itself for bone structure . Scientists use a formula that includes zinc, silicone And calcium phosphate. The process was successfully tested on rabbits. When bone material was combined with stem cells, natural bone growth was much faster than normal.

Probably in the future, using 3D printers it will be possible to grow not only bones, but also other organs. The only thing is need to invent suitable materials.

8) Restoring damaged brain

The brain is a very delicate organ and even minor injury can cause serious lasting consequences if certain critical areas are damaged. For people who have experienced such injuries, long-term rehabilitation is the only hope of returning to full life. Alternatively invented special device which stimulates the tongue.

Your tongue is connected to your nervous system by thousands of nerve bundles, some of which lead directly to the brain. Based on this fact, a wearable nerve stimulator called PoNS, which stimulates specific nerve areas on the tongue to force the brain to repair cells that have been damaged.

Surprisingly, it works. Patients who received this treatment experienced improvement within a week. In addition to blunt trauma, PoNS can also be used to restore the brain from anything, including alcoholism, Parkinson's disease, stroke And multiple sclerosis.

9) Man as an energy generator: pacemakers of the future

Pacemakers today they are used approximately 700 thousand people for regulation heart rate. But after some time, usually about 7 years, its charge is depleted and it discharges, requiring the most complex and expensive replacement operation.

Scientists from University of Michigan, seem to have solved the problem by developing a way to harness the energy provided by the movement of the heart. This energy can be used to power a pacemaker.

After highly successful tests new generation pacemaker is ready for real use live human heart. This device is made from materials that create electricity by changing shape.

If the attempt is successful, this technology can be used not only for pacemakers. It will be possible to create equipment and devices powered by human energy. For example, a device has already been invented that generates electricity using vibrations. inner ear, and is used to power a small radio.

"We tried to figure out which of these forecasts can be trusted and which ones cannot.

Preface

We recently had a lecture on anatomy, where our esteemed professor E. S. Okolokulak spoke about the central nervous system - telencephalon etc. Unexpectedly for us, he announced that he had prepared a cartoon, and we looked at each other, saying, why do we, such serious people, need cartoons. It was, of course, a joke, but he meant the latest program, which was recently created jointly by doctors and programmers. He talked about a 3D presentation of brain structures, both collectively and individually. But I was not very surprised by this, considering that I spend hours watching science fiction films and tons of YouTube videos on this topic, and what our professor showed us with such delight seemed self-evident to me. Of course, in fact, it took years to develop such a program, and this program is not given to anyone, but is stored almost in the professor’s safe. But that's not the point.

The professor smoothly moved on to the topic of the future of medicine, and expressed his opinion, touching, however, only on one area. He said that soon we will be spinning a 3D model of the brain in the air, just like in science fiction films, and there is no doubt about it. Such a respectable and serious professor spoke about such things, and we could not doubt it for a second. Moreover, we live in such times. Then he said that a few years ago, 3D brain scanning was fantastic, but now many doctors in practice can easily look at the structures of the brain layer by layer.

3D projection with gesture control

This is the first thing I want to describe, since our professor showed exactly this forecast in his lecture. In fact, in practice, 3D scanning is already used today, and today we can scan the same brain, and then rotate it, enlarge it, “cut” it layer by layer, and see what pathology is in a particular area. But! We do all this using the mouse, keyboard, that is, through the monitor screen. What if, in the near future, we could project a 3D model of the brain in real time into the air, and spin it around? different sides, enlarge, “cut” it right in the air with the same gestures? Yes, this will be possible in the future! Proof of this is that scientists have already begun to work in this direction, and today we can control the computer with gestures, but still on the screen, that is, by projecting a picture onto the surface (using the Kinect method). In the near future, however, such sensors will improve, and we will be able to move models directly in the air, just like Tony Stark from the movie “Iron Man.” Achieving this goal will take, I think, about 10-15 years, no more. This will not come true only if the doctors themselves consider it inconvenient.

Sensor clothing

This is not even worth discussing, because in India they have already come up with clothes that register different indicators body. It will be purchased by those who need to scan their body functions at certain intervals, and do not want to waste time on examination in hospitals. She will also be invaluable in sports.

All body functions will be displayed in real time, starting from pulse, blood pressure and ending general tone muscles. The information will be sent to the smartphone, and from there it will be synchronized with the computer at home, or on doctors’ devices. This will happen in 10-15 years.

3D printers of human organs

Of course, I couldn’t help but mention this. A sensational topic in our transition period is 3D printers. 3D printers that produce figures and parts from plastic, from which you can even assemble weapons, are no longer a novelty. Now scientists from several countries are growing living organs by printing them on 3D bioprinters. They “unsealed” the kidney, but it turned out that this kidney functions only for 4 months - that’s all. At this stage this problem is being resolved. It will be solved in 5-10 years.

Advances in neurotechnology

It was this direction that interested me most of all, because the brain and in general nervous system- this is a galaxy of mysterious structures that are not so well studied by humans. One, for example, had half his brain cut out and even more, but he was quite a common person, with an average mind; another had a tiny piece of necrotic tissue cut out and he became a vegetable. There is a lot that is unexplored in this field, and many scientists are working on it today.

Since I trained as an ambulance paramedic, I also couldn’t help but mention this. Several possible predictions:

• “Reversible death”, which will give time to save the victim. For example, administer a cryo solution instead of blood while a person is being taken to intensive care.
• Receiving reliable and necessary information about damage immediately from a smartphone or directly from the victim’s clothing.
• Delivering oxygen to any damaged parts of the body, especially the brain, is more in a fast way- again, through a special solution.
• Devices to maintain brain activity even if the body has stopped pumping blood. Something like a helmet, which is equipped with wires and tubes with blood substitutes.
• In the intensive care unit, due to technologies equipped with last word technicians and resuscitators will not waste those precious minutes on which a lot depends.

Due to less attention paid to critical care medicine than to other branches of medicine by researchers and governments, this forecast may take 20 years to come to fruition.

And the last forecast is universal computerization and integration of all structures of medicine

Innovations will directly affect all structures of medicine. Even something as simple as prescribing medications to a patient, filling out his medical history, obtaining information about him, about his diseases that he had before, about his hereditary diseases, with their probability... All this will be synchronized in central servers and submitted on tablets that will be given to each doctor when they begin work. All they have to do is attach the patient’s electronic card to the device. If you don’t have a card, it doesn’t matter, you can always fill it out without even typing, but by talking (voice control). In our country, however, all this will happen in 50, or even 80, years.

In the end, I would like to say that all this is possible only if we do not limit ourselves. As our professor said: “Ten years ago, everything that we see now was only science fiction and the figment of the imagination of writers and directors, but now, all this surrounds us. And there is no doubt that what is shown now in science fiction films and they write in books - it will come true in the next 5-10 years." Well, maybe not in 5-10 years, but in the next 50-80 years it should definitely come true. I believe in it.

Do you believe this?

Ibrahim Salamov

Revolutionary changes are taking place today in various fields. Medicine is also trying to keep up in this regard, despite its traditional conservatism. New drugs, new treatment methods, new technologies are being introduced into medicine. Most outdated treatment methods cannot be done without radical changes.

What we could only see a couple of years ago in science fiction books is now being vigorously discussed at medical conferences dedicated to innovation. Great emphasis is placed on Lately on computer technologies that are being introduced into surgery and are used for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

In the medicine of the future important role are not devoted to the treatment of diseases, but to their prevention and early prognosis. Implementation is gaining great momentum diagnostic devices. Predicting the disease makes it possible to save on treating the patient.

Thanks to the Internet, consultations can be carried out remotely, which saves time not only for the patient, but also for the doctor.

Personal electronic medical record

One of the stages of improvement modern medicine is the personalization of data and increased communication between doctors. Easy access to the medical history, allows you to prescribe timely effective treatment.

Maintaining medical records can gradually move online. Cloud software is used to store large amounts of information on the Internet. Thanks to the Internet, doctors from different clinics have access to patient data. Electronic medical records make it possible to timely learn about the patient’s health and prescribe effective treatment. Linking the equipment of a medical institution into a single network will make it possible to receive examination data on doctors’ portable devices. In the United States of America, some clinics already operate on this principle. Doctors have tablets that receive information about the patient: what medications are prescribed, test results, etc.

The introduction of Internet technologies saves time for the patient and the doctor. There is no need to get to the clinic; you just need to turn on the computer and you can contact a medical institution. Some doctors in Russia are already practicing consultations via Skype. Video calls make it possible not only to conduct a survey, but also to general examination, which is often enough for general idea about human health. If you still need to see a doctor, you can also make an appointment online. Such a service can already be found today in some clinics, including in Moscow.

How will diseases be diagnosed in the future?

Development medical technologies is moving towards ensuring that people can take care of their health on their own. Today in every home you can see tonometers. Diabetic patients use portable glucometers.

Pressure measuring devices, scales and other portable equipment are equipped with wireless transmitters that allow you to immediately transfer data to a computer and keep track of your health.

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22.12.2015

Human health is a knowledge-intensive industry that is developing at incredible speed. How will new technologies change it and who will be in demand in the labor market within 20 next years? Ucheba.ru diagnoses the future of medicine.

Over the past 100 years, the science of saving human lives has made huge strides forward, penetrating the secrets of human body and psyche. She learned to fight infectious diseases, developed plastic surgery, mastered new means surgical intervention, kept pace with the latest advances in miniaturization. We no longer get smallpox, we have forgotten what the plague is, we know how to transplant a heart. All this led to the fact that during the 20th century average duration life on the planet has increased from 35 to 65 years.

Medicine has come very far in solving the most different problems related to human health, but, alas, did not solve them all. Today it faces challenges no smaller than a century ago. Cancer has not yet been conquered, previously unknown viruses arise with enviable regularity, antibiotics lose their potency, new habits and lifestyles bring new diseases. At the same time, we are in the midst of a genetic revolution, intensively studying the structure of the brain, hoping for big data and robots, and waiting for breakthroughs in the fight against aging. Anyone who plans to connect their life with medicine today should take a closer look at the cutting edge of its development and understand how it may change by 2035.

Robot surgeon Da Vinci

The main supplier of new technologies and professions in all areas of human labor today is information technology. Doctors are no exception. Medical institutions are switching from analogue to digital accounting and are mastering computer analysis and forecasting systems. Tectonic shifts in the healthcare system in the foreseeable future are associated with increasing computing power and work with big data. In 2015, Google announced the launch of the first quantum computer, D-Wave. One can only guess what it will be like in 20 years, but it is absolutely certain - very, very fast. Such speeds and volumes will require specialists with advanced IT knowledge who are able to manage and support huge amounts of data - in the future, IT doctors and analysts will be in demand in medicine no less than nurses or dentists.

Automation systems and robotic systems go hand in hand with supercomputers. Da Vinci robotic surgeons, performing operations of varying complexity, mainly hysterectomies and prostatectomies, are already present in more than 2000 medical institutions, 25 of which are in Russia. These cars are not yet fully autonomous, and are unlikely to become so anytime soon. They need qualified engineers and operators with programming skills - professions that will definitely be needed in 20 years. MIT surgeon and inventor Katerina Mohr talks in her TED talk about how robots could give doctors real superpowers—and their use in medicine hasn't even begun yet.

Network technologies and computerization of the industry are bringing personalized medical services to the forefront. The development of tricorders, devices capable of making diagnoses independently of a doctor, mobile applications and wearable sensor gadgets will only add fuel to the fire. Well-known geneticist and digital medicine researcher Eric Topol calls this process “the emancipation of the patient” and believes that information and rapid examination will soon not only be available to everyone without visiting a doctor’s office, but will also make it possible to predict and prevent most serious illnesses on the fly.

Healthcare will go beyond the threshold of clinics and hospitals, relieving them of minor procedures and unnecessary bureaucracy. This will create a huge market for personalized therapy. Online personal doctors still exist today, but over the coming decades they will dominate the professional environment. No person interested in a healthy lifestyle will refuse instant access to expert opinion, especially if there is a convenient platform for this, and diagnostic tools are at hand. The work of a doctor will be similar to the work of a personal trainer and psychoanalyst. To build a successful career in such a world, you will need qualifications that are taught today not in medical, but in marketing institutes - customer focus and the ability to work with people.

Dmitry SHAMENKOV,

doctor, founder of the Health Management System, expert in the development and implementation of new technologies in medicine, Member of the Expert Board of the Innovation Center Development Fund Skolkovo for biomedical projects.

“In matters of health care, Russia should not be separated from the rest of the world. We have the same problems as citizens of European countries, Asian countries or America. New challenges arise very quickly, but new solutions are on the way. I think that in the near future it is worth paying attention to the integration of medicine and other sciences. First of all, biotechnology, information technologies and cognitive technologies. The emergence of new materials, robotic devices, deep machine learning, genetic engineering, development social networks And artificial intelligence completely and unexpectedly change us and our approach to medicine. We can confidently say that the medicine of the future is information medicine, focused on early prevention and high-tech prosthetics. I think the doctor of the future is a network of self-regulating quantum computers that have deeply studied the human genome, our behavioral characteristics, and everything Scientific research ever conducted by us. the main problem What a person will have to decide in the future is to learn to live free from the dictates of such a system. To do this, you need to study today. We live in the most amazing time in the history of mankind."

The process of personalizing medicine will be picked up by breakthroughs in the field of genetics. At the beginning of the 21st century, the international Human Genome project to decipher DNA was completed. The research cost $3 billion, and within 15 years the cost of personal genome sequencing had dropped below $1,000. In 20 years, this procedure will be carried out at the moment of birth, and everyone will know the features of their genome, like their blood type. Genetic counselors will appear on the labor market. They will help interpret the results, analyze the general state of health and refer the patient to the right specialist.

How CRISPR/Cas9 works

Even more interesting is how new technologies in the field genetic research directly affect human health. For example, the CRISPR/Cas9 system, which has caused a lot of noise, is a method for assembling DNA, which already today makes it possible to manipulate genes directly. On this moment The technology helps in the fight against serious diseases and opens up fantastic prospects in the field of DNA rearrangement of embryos. And although a complete understanding of the influence of the mechanisms of the human genome on health is still far away, it is required additional research- Genetics is radically changing the face of medicine. “This is no longer science fiction,” is how Dr. George Daly of Harvard Medical School characterizes the changes taking place. Within 20 years, CRISPR/Cas9 will become even more business as usual requiring qualified specialists.

Genetic manipulation and some other new technologies, such as face transplants, neurobiology and the production of artificial organs, will require society to seek new norms and rules for regulating the medical industry. This will require experts with a radically new knowledge base - medical, philosophical, social and political. Today this area is known as “bioethics” and has already appeared in the programs of leading universities. The demand for specialists who provide an ethical framework for working with new technologies will grow with each new scientific breakthrough. Cloning, transplantation, DNA modeling, euthanasia and other sensitive issues will be dealt with under the close supervision of bioethicists.

In addition to genetics, science will provide the medical industry with a number of specialists in the field of bioimaging, targeted therapy, neurobiology, optogenetics, regenerative medicine and nanotechnology. These scientific fields today they attract the greatest interest not only among experts, but also among the business community. Entrepreneur and member of the INVITRO strategic committee Sergei Shupletsov notes that “in the next 15 years, many mechanical technologies will be replaced by biotechnologies. First of all, this will affect health. For example, drugs will be invented that cannot be fully called medicinal. They will control and stimulate natural protective forces organism."

3D bioprinting technologies are especially well represented in Russia. Thus, Russian specialists were among the first to print an organ construct thyroid gland mice using the Russian Fabion bioprinter. Bioprinting is the process of recreating a copy of an organ using living cells from the body. The “magic” happens in a special multifunctional device, the scale of which will soon grow to meet human needs. Industry leaders in Russia - the first domestic private laboratory working in the field of three-dimensional organ bioprinting, 3D Bioprinting Solutions. Successful experiences today indicate that in 20 years there will be no shortage of work in this field.

To expand our understanding of the processes that result in cell damage and obtain new countermeasures serious illnesses, the development of new laboratory observation techniques, such as bioimaging, is important. Russian specialists have also succeeded in this area. Representatives of the Institute of Applied Physics RAS make some of the highest quality installations for fluorescent bioimaging, which play a big role in oncological research and pharmacology. Other current developments in the field of biotechnology concern nanochips, stem cells and neural interfaces. Specialists in these fields are now worth their weight in gold and will not lose their status until 2035.

Development of modern medicine and general increase living standards have led to the fact that the demographic structure of the population has changed greatly. In developed and developing countries There are more and more elderly people. According to Rosstat, by 2030, a third of the Russian population will be of retirement age. This is probably not the limit, given the development of a completely new field of knowledge - life science, which aims to increase life expectancy or completely defeat aging. A group of philanthropists led by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg annually awards the Breakthrough Prize and $3 million to the best researchers in this area. The idea that a person can, on average, live more than 100 years is finding more and more adherents among serious scientists.

Changing demographics will have a significant impact on the healthcare of the future. Firstly, it will lead to the emergence of a new type medical workers- specialists in dignified aging, whose abilities and knowledge will be in great demand in a society dominated by people over 60 years of age. Secondly, the science of life extension could seriously change the structure of the industry, providing a buffer for all the new technologies that the aging population will need to maintain a high quality of life: from plastic surgery to bioprinting new organs to replace worn-out ones. Demand for quality medical services will grow proportionally.

Medicine is facing big, but quite predictable changes. The next 20 years will be the era of personalization, computerization and biotechnology of the industry. This does not mean that the industry will experience a serious crisis. Quite the opposite. New technologies are likely to usher in a golden era of healthcare for humanity. More and more diseases are treatable. Health costs are rising every year. Innovations are expanding the market for medical services, adding a scattering of new jobs, and automation processes do not yet threaten even the most low-skilled personnel. In the future, medicine will remain at its best - it will be an interesting, noble and profitable profession, and most importantly - for every taste.

Doctors of the future

IT medic	Bioethicist	Operator surgeon
Specialist in the field of IT, databases and medical software.	Studies and resolves controversial medical issues from a legal and moral point of view.	Operator of automated surgical systems.
Genetic consultant	DNA surgeon	Online therapist
Engaged in conducting genetic analysis and interpretation of its results.	Specialist in the field of DNA assembly and gene manipulation.	A generalist who provides personal medical services remotely.
Life science expert	Translational Medicine Specialist	Clinical gerontologist
Maximization specialist healthy image life and its extension.	Promotes transfer basic research in biomedicine to general medical practice.	Healthy aging specialist.
	Tissue engineer
	Bioprinting professional.

Entry points into the medicine of the future in Russia

Russian medical education today lasts from six to 18 years. Immediately after the six-year university, graduates can only become therapists or pediatricians. Postgraduate education to obtain a specialty will take another two to five years. Those who want to become a doctor of science study the longest: in this case, the duration of education will be comparable to the life expectancy of a person who has reached adulthood.

Ucheba.ru

Time passes, and scientists do not sit idly by, but do everything to ensure that medicine constantly develops, progresses and receives more opportunities to work with patients. Their goal is to reach a level where all diseases can be defeated, and, even better, their occurrence can be prevented altogether. How close they came to this, and what the medicine of the future will be like, we will tell you in this article.

Nanobots: the hope of all humanity

Who among us does not know about nanotechnology? In the world of medicine and science, they are on everyone’s lips, because this is our future and the very magical way to solve many problems related to human health.

What makes them special? Nanoparticles have unique properties, which open up many new opportunities for scientists.

Science fiction books or films often show technologies that allow one to quickly resuscitate a person, restore his damaged limbs, and so on. Just ten years ago, all this seemed just fiction, a figment of someone’s imagination. But today these are the realities of the future, because scientists predict that as soon as nanostructures receive more wide use, they will begin to create miniature robots that can quickly restore the human body, roughly speaking, carry out a major overhaul.

Of course, such a statement looks very doubtful, but in fact it is quite real. The interaction between a sick person and nanotechnology will look like in the following way. The patient drinks a mixture containing nanobots, that is, miniature robots, or it is injected intravenously, and they are absorbed into the bloodstream. During their move, they will be able to repair all internal damage.

With the help of nanoparticles it will also become possible correction DNA, which will not only correct it, but also prevent the occurrence of mutations leading to the formation various kinds diseases.

Cyborgs – fantasy or reality?

Another favorite theme of science fiction is cyborg people, that is, those who have mechanized body parts. But can such opportunities be considered something fantastic today? It’s unlikely, because already in 2011 an operation was performed in America, during which the patient’s heart was completely removed, and instead two rotors were installed, responsible for pumping blood.

Also, quite a long time ago, doctors learned to administer artificial stimulants, which can also be considered a kind of cybernitization of a person. The problem with such installations was that they had to be changed quite often. However, today Israeli scientists have taken into account their shortcomings and have created more advanced versions of stimulants and other similar devices that feed on the biocurrents of the human body. This means that the need for such frequent replacement has also disappeared.

Who knows, perhaps soon the bright minds of humanity will learn to create even more convenient and stable mechanized devices that can replace grown ones artificially organs.

Artificial organs

It's no secret that problems with the level of ecology, a sharp increase in population on the planet, and many other factors have stimulated an increase in the number of diseases. Unfortunately, they spare no one and often lead to prolonged suffering and fatalities. One can only sympathize with people who are on dialysis and need an organ transplant, because quite often their expectations are not met.

It is also worth noting that organ transplantation is a very complex and, most importantly, expensive process. But stem cells will help solve this problem once and for all. Long time Scientists have been working to study their characteristics and the possibility of growing new organs from individual tissues. To date, many successful studies have been carried out in laboratories, which confirm that very soon every person will be able to receive the right organ and even recover from such terrible diseases as cerebral palsy.

Diagnostics of the future - what will it be like?

Well, what kind of future in medicine is possible without development? early diagnosis? In fact, most incurable or difficult-to-treat diseases arise precisely because patients seek professional help too late. medical care or due to poor quality equipment.

New technologies will be as simple as possible, easy to use, and most importantly – very accurate. Thanks to them, doctors will be able to determine the occurrence of all diseases very quickly. early stages, which means that the treatment process will also be simplified, and will be less painful and expensive.

Science has already made significant steps in this direction; recall at least all kinds of devices that allow you to monitor a person’s blood pressure, blood sugar levels, etc.

In the future, it is planned to create small sensors that can be implanted into a person’s skin or sewn into his clothing. With the help of such biosensory mechanisms, everyone will be able to monitor general condition your body, including such indicators as heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar levels, hormone levels and many others, no less important.