It looks like damn it. As proof, the feat was awarded in 2012 the Nobel Prize for Medicine. An organ is aging? It is enough to regenerate it for him (us) to make his first youth. "Simply" by injecting our own brand new cells. This is where the Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka comes in: from a fragment of skin, he discovered how to make some cells go back in time, genetically "reprogramming" them to become induced pluripotent stem cells (CSPi), similar to our basic cells, founders of the embryo that we were, and able to convert to any other body cells: heart cells, retina ... It is thus available, at the demand for new drug cells from the entire human body. It remains to store them in a cellular bank. Singapore and Dubai already have two, which hold 47,000, until regenerative medicine really knows how to use them.
Artificial uterus and amniotic fluid, machine-placenta, catheters connecting it to the umbilical cord ... Mice, already, have thus almost developed to term, and kids have passed the course of "delivery". For researchers, it is the survival of very premature infants of the future that is played there, as well as an alternative to high-risk pregnancies. Others see the true equality between men and women, with the end of the sacralisation of the belly and childbirth. Research is advanced but difficult, yet it is likely that after-after-tomorrow will be transplanted human embryos designed by in vitro fertilization into artificial uteri.
An implant has been designed to last sixteen years and is activated by a simple click on "On" via its remote control. 2 cm long, a miniaturized tank distills daily the right dose of progestogen hormone, like some pills. We want to be pregnant? We just click on "Off", and we turn it off.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds the development of this contraception, the fatherhood of the concept going back to the founder of Microsoft. It should appear on the US market in 2018.
The addicts of the couch can shudder with gluttony. Avatars-psys to whom to entrust his psyche ten times a day, at 3 o'clock in the morning as the weekend, will soon be with us. Able to identify in real time our emotions like Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze's "Her" by sifting through the algorithms that constitute the entirety of the "body language" and mimicry of their patients sitting behind the screen, webcam on. The most famous psy-prototype is called SimSensei and was designed at the Institute for Creative Technologies in California.
Two women may one day procreate without men and without the gift of sperm. How? One will provide its oocyte, while the other will make the sperm ... thanks to its induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which will be transformed here into gametes. A 100% feminine design that will only give birth to girls. Indeed, the female sperm thus created can only carry the X chromosome, men being the only ones to also have a Y. It is therefore an exclusively female society that could be profiled in the future. And there, we just want to say: "No way! "
Nanotechnological missiles to kill the disease? They are liposomes-kamikazes that measure one millionth of a millimeter and infiltrate inside the cancer cells, armed with gold particles. On the spot, their lipid envelope melts and the gold spreads in the tumor cells. An infrared laser then heats the metal and, in response, the cancer cell overheats until it explodes. Mission accomplished soon.
This revolution announces the end of the torture for 347 million diabetics in the world: having to take the finger to measure the sugar content in the drop of blood. The lenses take the information from the tear fluid and send it to a tablet. Google and the Novartis lab are working together so they can be worn within five years.
Erase a heartache or childhood trauma as you operate a magic slate? This is what researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been considering since they discovered the Tet 1 gene, on which depends the persistence or forgetting of bad memories: if this gene is extinguished, we remain stuck on painful events; conversely, if this gene is overactivated by a drug, the ability to forget increases. MIT researchers are working on the molecule that will help to soften memory, especially post-traumatic stress.
The procreative parity will soon be perfect: women can procreate as long as men. Since ovarian aging will be reversible, the menopause will have disappeared from the gynecological picture. The trick is through the invention of a molecule that stimulates hidden stem cells in the ovaries, which wake up and start producing youthful oocytes again.
An artificial arm (or leg) driven by thought, like a real one? This will one day be possible, thanks to a cascade of complex processes where both the nerve endings saved on the amputated limb, the electrical signals of the muscles, associated with hundreds of electrodes on the stump, and sensors on the limb are solicited. prosthesis. Next step: experience sensations to touch, heat and cold.
