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Medical Advance - Borderline Creepy

jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Ten Forward
Remember that bit in the early Solonae mission when you found the corpse whose blood had been entirely replaced by a polymer?

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an injectable polymer intended to stop people from bleeding to death, by forming a polymer barrier in the place where you're bleeding out. So far they've only gotten to animal testing, but it looks promising.
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    That'll be great if it can be put into applicators/injectors which could be carried by haemopheliacs :cool:
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited March 2015
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    That'll be great if it can be put into applicators/injectors which could be carried by haemopheliacs :cool:

    I grew up knowing the gentleman who became the oldest living hemophiliac. His grandson inherited the problem and nearly died in a freak accident. I'd dearly love for him to have such a protection.
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    steamwright wrote: »
    I grew up knowing the gentleman who became the oldest living hemophiliac. His grandson inherited the problem and nearly died in a freak accident. I'd dearly love for him to have such a protection.

    It's a cruel condition, that's for sure :( Hopefully something like this will be a way forwards :cool:
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  • mvp333mvp333 Member Posts: 509 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Oooh, fancy, an anti-bleeding-out polymer. Pretty cool, actually. Hope I never have to get that stuff stuck in me, but... it's good to see these things developing.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    skollulfr wrote: »
    just waiting until they create fully synthetic bodies to transplant our brains to so the badly structured natural flesh bodies can be discarded.
    Or, in the words of Joel (Hijinks Ensue) Watson, "The minute I can upload into a sexy cybernetic body, I'm heaving this out-of-warranty meat pile into a ditch! INTO A DITCH!!"
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,582 Community Moderator
    edited March 2015
    Medkit in a can?
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Medkit in a can?
    Oddly, that was the second thing I thought of when I read the story.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    skollulfr wrote: »
    just waiting until they create fully synthetic bodies to transplant our brains to so the badly structured natural flesh bodies can be discarded.

    or a way of mapping our minds to a machine simulation in a stable way.

    Or something that turned up in this Orson Scott Card novel Invasive Procedures, a genetically engineered virus that replaces the bad copies of genes with non-disease-causing ones in situ. Solves the problem and ensures the problem genes won't be passed on to the person's kids.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    starswordc wrote: »
    Or something that turned up in this Orson Scott Card novel Invasive Procedures, a genetically engineered virus that replaces the bad copies of genes with non-disease-causing ones in situ. Solves the problem and ensures the problem genes won't be passed on to the person's kids.

    Only Card novel I actually liked...that one was creepy but good.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Only Card novel I actually liked...that one was creepy but good.

    Yeah that was a weird novel. There are some Card novels I like, but there are far too many similarities between the Homecoming series and Alvin Maker series and his religion. The Homecoming series is similar to taking Genesis and making it into a science fiction series.
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Should go a long way towards saving the lives of soldiers and marines on the battlefield.
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    The only creepy thing about it is that we're still testing on animals. Yeah, yeah, I know, the need of the many and what if it was you or a loved one, bla, bla, bla...All true, but I don't have to like it.

    As for the thing itself, sounds great. If they find a way to replace the whole blood for something that works better, go for it. Nanites as immune system? Where do I sign up? And so on.

    :)
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2015
    This is great, future here we come.
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