Bionic Sight
As a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Chow was frustrated by his inability to prevent a degenerative eye disease from blinding one of his young patients. He is the originator of the vision chip.
As a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Chow was frustrated by his inability to prevent a degenerative eye disease from blinding one of his young patients. He is the originator of the vision chip.
Artificial Heart
Approximately five million people in the placecountry-regionUnited States today suffer from Congestive Heart Failure, a disease that can simply be described as a broken heart. During the FDA study eighty percent of the patients in need of heart transplant surgery survived on this artificial heart long enough to have their hearts replaced with a donor heart.
Approximately five million people in the placecountry-regionUnited States today suffer from Congestive Heart Failure, a disease that can simply be described as a broken heart. During the FDA study eighty percent of the patients in need of heart transplant surgery survived on this artificial heart long enough to have their hearts replaced with a donor heart.
PolyHeme:
The Universal
Blood Substitute
This study will determine if this artificial oxygen carrying blood substitute, which is compatible with all blood types, is ready for widespread use in everyday trauma and surgical settings.
The Universal
Blood Substitute
This study will determine if this artificial oxygen carrying blood substitute, which is compatible with all blood types, is ready for widespread use in everyday trauma and surgical settings.
Deactivating
Blood Pathogens
With all the possible dangers, people all over the world still need blood transfusions at a rate of one person every three seconds. A new blood cleansing technology has recently been developed that deactivates pathogens in blood components.
Blood Pathogens
With all the possible dangers, people all over the world still need blood transfusions at a rate of one person every three seconds. A new blood cleansing technology has recently been developed that deactivates pathogens in blood components.
This Fake Tattoo Can Monitor a Person’s Vital Signs
A Tattoo
Medical Breakthrough
Professor John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois have developed a prototype temporary tattoo that contains microelectronic circuits on a clear rubber transfer medium. The team’s temporary body art tattoos can monitor a person's vital signs while they are up and about performing their normal daily activities.
Medical Breakthrough
Professor John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois have developed a prototype temporary tattoo that contains microelectronic circuits on a clear rubber transfer medium. The team’s temporary body art tattoos can monitor a person's vital signs while they are up and about performing their normal daily activities.
Microelectronic circuits inside the tattoo monitor vital signs of the patient.
Painless Dentistry
The plasma brush is the new tool that can remove dental decay and prepare a tooth for a filling without any painful drilling. (See photo.) This technology not only removes the need for the drill, it also eliminates the need for most Novocain injections.
Your dentist might switch from a drill to the plasma brush sometime next year.
The plasma brush is the new tool that can remove dental decay and prepare a tooth for a filling without any painful drilling. (See photo.) This technology not only removes the need for the drill, it also eliminates the need for most Novocain injections.
Your dentist might switch from a drill to the plasma brush sometime next year.
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
Bioengineering the Mosquito Bite
If you were ever bitten by a mosquito, and who hasn't, you will find the work of these doctors fascinating. Imagine a world without biting Mosquitos!!!!
Biotechnologists, at the laboratory level, have found a way to eliminate mosquito bites. They also have found a way to stop them from being able to carry Malaria. They are now working on preventing mosquitos from carrying other diseases.
Their solutions don't involve the use of insecticides. This column also explains why Mosquitos' bite and why some people are actually Mosquito magnets.
If you were ever bitten by a mosquito, and who hasn't, you will find the work of these doctors fascinating. Imagine a world without biting Mosquitos!!!!
Biotechnologists, at the laboratory level, have found a way to eliminate mosquito bites. They also have found a way to stop them from being able to carry Malaria. They are now working on preventing mosquitos from carrying other diseases.
Their solutions don't involve the use of insecticides. This column also explains why Mosquitos' bite and why some people are actually Mosquito magnets.
Controlling Cybernetic Machines with the Human Mind
The first cybernetic people will only have a few mind controlled parts. These parts will replace amputated arms, hands, or legs. People with these kinds of replacements are now common in Sci-Fi movies. This column explores how close we are to almost human androids and mind controlled cybernetic replacement parts for people.
Recognizing the power of our brains is nothing new but trying to tap into our thoughts to create cyborg human enhancements is no longer just science fiction. One of Elon Musk’s newest technology initiatives is the creation of a new company named Neuralink. The goal he set for its scientists and engineers is the development of hardware that can allow the human brain to automatically interface its own thoughts with artificial intelligence programs on the person’s computer or smartphone.
At CES 2019 I found BrainCo a company that was founded in 2015 that has already made major strides in tapping human brain waves without the need for brain surgery. Before describing their brain-machine Interface (BMI) I feel it critical to indicate that the BrainCo technology was developed by scientists, engineers, and PhD students from Harvard University.
At CES 2019 I found BrainCo a company that was founded in 2015 that has already made major strides in tapping human brain waves without the need for brain surgery. Before describing their brain-machine Interface (BMI) I feel it critical to indicate that the BrainCo technology was developed by scientists, engineers, and PhD students from Harvard University.
Bio-Hacking a Person's Thoughts
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The Biological Supercapacitor
A power Source That Never Needs to be Replaced
A power Source That Never Needs to be Replaced
The Biological
Supercapacitor
Supercapacitor
The biological supercapacitor is a new material science breakthrough of a biologically friendly electrical energy storage device. It is completely made up of materials that are biologically compatible with our internal chemistry. This device is recharged by the animal or human body’s biological fluids and physical movements. Scientists at UCLA and the University of Connecticut worked together to develop this new biological supercapacitor. Their research was funded by the National Science Foundation and other bioengineering and health institutes.
They built their supercapacitor using layers of graphene and human proteins so their device contains no ingredients which are not biologically compatible with the human body. It is the inclusion of human proteins that makes their supercapacitor a biological device.
They built their supercapacitor using layers of graphene and human proteins so their device contains no ingredients which are not biologically compatible with the human body. It is the inclusion of human proteins that makes their supercapacitor a biological device.
Improving Surgery with 3D Printed Practice Organs
Some Bleed When Cut
Some Bleed When Cut
Part 1
Separation of Conjoined Twins with the Help of a 3D Printer
This past June, in Gainesville Florida, two conjoined twins were separated after many practice planning sessions that used 3D printed organs that were created using 3D body scans of these babys' hearts.
Part 2
3D Printed Almost Human Organs -that Bleed
Doctors who are learning their craft are beginning to practice surgery using almost human 3D printed organs that will bleed fake blood when they are cut. These organs contain built in defects or cancers that must be surgically fixed or removed.
Yesterday’s Science Fiction—Today’s Medical Breakthrough Feb. 2016
The movie prop that was attached to Luke Skywalker’s body, after his arm was cut off by Darth Vader in the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, was pure fiction when that movie was released back in 1980. What was once bioengineering fiction is today’s medical breakthrough.
The DEKA Luke Arm (Photo 1) is FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approved. What makes this prosthetic so amazing is that its physical movements are controlled by its wearer’s mind, just like in the movie.
The DEKA Luke Arm (Photo 1) is FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approved. What makes this prosthetic so amazing is that its physical movements are controlled by its wearer’s mind, just like in the movie.
Once a Prop From Star Wars is Now
FDA Approved
FDA Approved
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Research & Development Corp.
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Augmented Vision through a
Contact Lens
March/April 2021
The CES 2021 Last Gadget Standing Event winner was the Mojo Vision AR Contact Lens. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that superimposes computer-generated images or information onto a user's view of the real world. Mojo Vision has actually micro-sized this technology so it fits into a contact lens. See photos 1 and 2. One advantage instantly gained by moving AR so it sits directly over the retina of the eye is automatic eye tracking for proper placement of images and information into images of the real world.
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Contact Lens
March/April 2021
The CES 2021 Last Gadget Standing Event winner was the Mojo Vision AR Contact Lens. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that superimposes computer-generated images or information onto a user's view of the real world. Mojo Vision has actually micro-sized this technology so it fits into a contact lens. See photos 1 and 2. One advantage instantly gained by moving AR so it sits directly over the retina of the eye is automatic eye tracking for proper placement of images and information into images of the real world.
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Seeing Inside the Human Body Via the Ultrasound Postage Stamp Sized Patch
August/September 2022
We are going to look at a major breakthrough which shrinks the equipment and process performed by today’s ultrasound equipment down in size so the hardware that creates the ultrasound is a stick-on patch the size of a US postage stamp. See photo 1 and 2.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Mayo Clinic engineering breakthrough will change the size and place where an ultrasound might take place after the device receives proper approval for medical use.
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August/September 2022
We are going to look at a major breakthrough which shrinks the equipment and process performed by today’s ultrasound equipment down in size so the hardware that creates the ultrasound is a stick-on patch the size of a US postage stamp. See photo 1 and 2.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Mayo Clinic engineering breakthrough will change the size and place where an ultrasound might take place after the device receives proper approval for medical use.
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Medical Breakthroughs Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence
Sept/Oct 2023
Amazing Medical breakthrough! A UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley medical research team created an AI empowered brain-computer Interface that restored the ability of a paralyzed patient to speak again. The system
decodes speech brain waves gathered by their neuroprosthetic implant and uses ChatGPT to organize her brain speech into cogent words and sentences that are spoken aloud by her digital twin avatar on a computer screen.
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Sept/Oct 2023
Amazing Medical breakthrough! A UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley medical research team created an AI empowered brain-computer Interface that restored the ability of a paralyzed patient to speak again. The system
decodes speech brain waves gathered by their neuroprosthetic implant and uses ChatGPT to organize her brain speech into cogent words and sentences that are spoken aloud by her digital twin avatar on a computer screen.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant
Receives FDA Approval for Human Trials
January - February 2024
On May 25, 2023 Elon Musk’s Neuralink medical implant received FDA approval to start human trials. The implant could enable people, paralyzed from the neck down, to operate computers, smartphones and eventually other computer-controlled devices through wireless mind control. After the surgery the computer brain interface will use a self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm to determine which electrical signals control the mental planning of the physical movements of the subject's body parts. These signals will let the patient control a computer wirelessly just with their mind.
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Receives FDA Approval for Human Trials
January - February 2024
On May 25, 2023 Elon Musk’s Neuralink medical implant received FDA approval to start human trials. The implant could enable people, paralyzed from the neck down, to operate computers, smartphones and eventually other computer-controlled devices through wireless mind control. After the surgery the computer brain interface will use a self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm to determine which electrical signals control the mental planning of the physical movements of the subject's body parts. These signals will let the patient control a computer wirelessly just with their mind.
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