There was an era when a physician named Thomas Willis in 1675 ascribed urine of diabetic patients as sweet—“as if imbued with a honey or sugar”. Apparently, back then, by tasting urine, one of the distinctive features of diabetes was substantiated. Later, Mathew Dobson (1735-1784) identified that the sweet substance …
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Artificial organs Initially considered to be a ground-breaking technology for its ability to regenerate skin cells for skin draughts for burn victims, bio-printing is an emerging medical technology that is now giving way to even more exciting possibilities. Bio-printing can be used to create blood vessels and synthetic ovaries (perhaps even …
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Neuralink Corporation is a neuro technology company founded by Elon Musk and others in 2016 with its headquarters in San Francisco. Its team of extraordinarily talented scientists is working to develop a fully integrated brain machine interface (BMI) system—sometimes called a brain computer interface (BCI)—that enables a computer (or other …
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