Prostate and testicular the other big one for men. I'll be honest I take them quite seriously. And with the prostate, even if it aint cancer, an enlarged prostate can be a life of misery. And if you need surgery on it, then that's hell in itself.
There’s some research going on too that provides a cellular repair to damaged spinal tissue. It’s already worked in mice, where even when the spinal cord has been severed a couple of injections and it is repaired again and the mice can walk again. The hope is that they can use it on humans eventually, in a similar way so that even those people who have had injuries that have paralysed them, will be able to walk again with no surgery ! amazing stuff
Implants have for paras have been around for years but the new developments are quite a big leap but tbh from what i see the real benefit isn't one of being able to walk but the fact that the stimulus to the nerve generating muscular reaction was shown to promote an increase in general health . Quite seriously as it stands they would make quicker easier walking progress using a set of full length calipers .
Surely it's got to be better if they're able to run, swim and ride a bike. It says in the article that it helps to rebuild lost muscle but also sends a signal like the brain to the spinal cord to actually move their legs.
even if fully paralysed people there is normally still some nerve signal getting thru but is too weak to promote a response and this works by having the implant below the lesion level and the implant boosts the nerve "signal" to the point it does produce a response .If a para wants to swim he can as long as he/she isn't a quad . The point i was making is that to many paras the "walking" thing isn't necessarily as big as you AB's think however one of the biggest is bladder control and i suspect that from the stuff which has been released this treatment may well bring some control for full paras or at least sensation allowing possibility of changing the bladder control method .
Should point out i'm fairly jaundiced on this sort of thing having seen the original PC Olds documentary and knowing he was going to end up disappointed . Plus in the past whenever something like this came out gormless ****s would regularly stop you on the street and tell you "you will be able to get rid of that soon " .
I love it when people talk about what “we” are capable of achieving in these circumstances. Most of “us” are baffled by IKEA furniture. “We” are for the most part, thick ****s who’d freeze to death if we had to build our own shelter.
Getting your DNA frozen won't bring you back. At least not your consciousness. DNA is your genetic code it's not you... Just the blueprint to make someone that looks like you. Your clone might be completely asexual and not want to be a sex cyborg. Your clone will probably have a model trainset in his attic and keep pigeons and drink light beer.
Yep would be like somebody making a clone of you. You'd have certain traits that you'd share on a physiological level, but your personality is unique.
I'd say struggling to put up an IKEA shelf is still a more noble achievement than bombing the **** out of some school in Yemen.
Well yeah, obviously. But most of the huge scientific advances of the last century - spin-offs of the Manhattan Project during WWII - have come about because governments wanted to invest in weapons technology. You have that iPhone in your hand because the US and other Western governments threw money at university physics departments, in a bid to win the arms race.
I know that mate, which is precisely why both the posts you've quoted was about what the human race is capable of doing in a good way rather than in a negative way. That was my only point. I think it was even mentioned earlier that there's so much negative **** going on that it's just refreshing to focus on the good we're capable of.
Unfortunately no. Fingers crossed one day Musk, Bezos and Branson all end up there on a collision course with each other.
There was a petition to keep Bezos in space. Think I signed it, dunno how many signatures it got though.
This is a massive development. From Nature and New Scientist. If researchers can harness nuclear fusion — the process that powers the Sun (and other stars) — it promises to provide a near-limitless source of clean energy. But so far no experiment has generated more energy out than it puts in. The Joint European Torus, or JET, an experimental fusion machine near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, generated around 59 megajoules, or 11 Megawatts of energy - enough to power around 10,000 homes - in a five second burst. The experiment still consumed more energy to create the fusion reaction than the energy released by it, but a sustained fusion event of this kind is a major advance. “It’s not an unexpected result. It is really the pinnacle of the work that is done for years: that yes, it does do what you understood it should do. I feel a certain amount of relief,” says team member Volker Naulin at EuroFusion, a consortium of fusion research groups. Nuclear fusion holds the promise of a continuous low carbon power 'clean' supply without the radioactive waste problem of its cousin, nuclear power from fission. The new record is significant as it indicates commercial fusion power could become a reality. The achievement suggests a far bigger and more powerful fusion tokomak machine being built in the south of France, called ITER, should achieve its goals when it is switched on in 2025. Those aims are to generate more power than is put in, the long-awaited goal of fusion power, and to do so for a sustained period of time, about 50 minutes initially. Naulin says JET’s new record is a sign that the modelling for ITER is correct. “It’s really confirmation that what has been calculated for ITER is not a fantasy number.”
