The marvels of modern medicine

Would you ever have imagined you’d be able to grow your own replacement heart parts? This can, literally, be the difference between life and death. According to an article in the NY Times, Stem Cell Experiment Yields Heart Valves, scientists have been able to grow “human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb.” Considering the successful experiments already conducted to grow bladders and blood vessels and with further extensive experiments, scientists believe people will one day be able to grow their own replacement heart parts to repair defective hearts.

No, this is not a sci-fi movie. This is real life.

Tissue engineering is a very important--- why use artificial hearts, limbs, organs, when you can grow them yourself? Again, growing replacements organs or limbs will probably take years or decades, but just the idea that it is highly probable is fantastic.

In another story, technology is also keeping pace with medical breakthroughs. According to the article, New robot can sense damage, compensate, now even robots are “thinking” and can adapt themselves to injury. Incredible!

George Jetson’s world is not too far off (and to think the first episodes of The Jetsons appeared in 1962).