Tufts University scientists create tiny biological robots from human stem cells that can heal neuron tissue. - eviltoast
Scientists create tiny robots from human cells that can heal neuron tissue
www.zmescience.com
Personalized medicine? How about a robot that repairs your tissue from the inside
  • Lugh@futurology.todayOPMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This technology is still very much at the proof of concept stage. What’s fascinating is that they did not expect the neuron tissue to be healed in the way it was, and don’t even understand how the stem cell robots did so.

    That is a problem though. How do you develop the potential for something, when you don’t really know what it may be able to do, or how it may be able to do it?

    • Rednax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You probably develop it the same way that pretty much all medicine was developped before about a hundred years ago: trial, and error. For example: randomly stumble upon penecillin in experiments in 1928. Then take another decade, and other scientists to actually figure out the chemical composition and how it helps as a medicine.