April 29, 200718 yr http://www.physorg.com/news96542517.html This is a pretty exciting article. Who knows, maybe within the next 10 to 20 years almost any injury or disease will be treatable, including aging.
May 2, 200718 yr It does look promising. But it's still in the early stages. Plus, it will be expensive for a long time as far as I can tell as the cost of making something that microscopic isn't exactly chump change. Plus, you have to program the blasted things! You wanna try and encoded several million lines into a computer?
May 2, 200718 yr Yeah, lots of surprising things they are discovering. Like recently they discovered they were wrong about cell death after 5 minutes of no heart beat. Turns out after a certain period of time, it's the oxygen influx that kills. Basically the same thing that tells a cell to die when it detects cancer also can be triggered by a sudden influx of oxygen after a period of inactivity. In actuallity if they didn't pump the patient full of oxygen when they try to resuccitate then the cells of the body can survive hours before the point of no return. So right now they are researching ways to resuccitate that avoid this by slowly re-introducing oxygen to the patient, along with inducing hypothermia to slow metabolism and reduce the shock to the system. Which means you don't need to have been frozen in an ice cold lake to be resuccitate after an hour. IOW, the 5 minute limit will soon no longer be the limit.
May 2, 200718 yr That is great. What is there progress into reversing mental health problems like Autism in people. I do have a personal stake in this after all, as I have said I suffer from my own mental health issues.
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