Medical & technical advances

Nanobots Will Be Flowing Through Your Body by 2030 (20/11-20): In 10 years, nanobots in your blood might keep you from getting sick or even transmit your thoughts to a wireless cloud.

Micro-Chip Technology Resurrects Tattoo Identification + Medical Surveillance (4/3-20): An invasive microchip tattoo was designed specifically to facilitate enforcement of children’s vaccination. It was developed at the personal request of Bill Gates. Ultimately, such tattoos will facilitate enforcement of vaccination dictates…

December 2019: Be All You Can Be! DARPA wants to biohack nature vs nurture to enhance soldiers’ talents, it looks to measure genotypes and phenotypes to have more mission ready personnel.

Deep tech, big data, and their impact on precision medicine

The Sociable's interview series on precision medicine:

Part I: Challenges in achieving precision medicine, personalized healthcare

Part II: Pharma needs to embrace new strategies for personalized, precision medicine

Part III: What the ‘biomarker revolution’ means for personalized, precision medicine

Part IV: How growing mini human hearts is advancing precision medicine, drug discovery

Part V: The future of precision medicine, technology in healthcare

DARPA is turning soldiers’ skin into a mosquito repellent: ‘Engineering the skin microbiome is no simple task’

Februar 2017: AI-human hybrids are essential for humanity’s evolution and survival: “Over time we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Elon Musk explained at the 2017 World Government Summit in Dubai.

Radio frequency-activated nanoparticles may be a magic bullet (2007): New work by a group of American universities has developed a proof-of-concept

To test the feasibility of this technique, the researchers implanted mice with a "tumor-like gel" saturated with nanoparticles. The mice were placed at the center of an electrical coil, and it was shown that, in the absence of a field, the nanoparticle's tethers remained intact. When the coil was pulsed with the appropriate frequency and duration, researchers found that the drug attached to the nanoparticles were indeed released into the surrounding tissue. While the experiment was indeed interesting, it is only a proof-of-principle, and therapies based on the technique are still a long way off from seeing clinical use. Further refinement may change this, according to Bhatia "our overall goal is to create multifunctional nanoparticles that home to a tumor, accumulate, and provide customizable remotely activated drug delivery right at the site of the disease."