Advancing Medicine with Technology

Eve Vertes look to the future of Medicine!
"Cancer and Alzheimer active researcher since the age of 17"

Direct link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/12




I am featuring this video on my blog for two reasons. One is the medical discoveries are done through innovative young people. Eve talks about how she studied metal deposits in fruit flies and the effects on the neurological system. Eve also discusses the means of cancer and how it gets transported through the body. The cancer cells usually attach to lymph in the body which grow into tumors. There have been rare occasions where the muscle tissue has cancer attached . This is caused by the metabolically structure and design the muscle is composed of.

The second reason that I chose this video is due to a paper I have read on Medical Nanobots repairing cells and damaged tissues in the body by Dick Pelletier. If we could integrate these two innovative ideas and place them into practice. We would be able to minimize Alzheimer as discussed by Eve by allowing the nanobots to enter into the bloodstream and allow them to detect bad tissue and repair. I also see where this could be helpful if built to destroy cancerous cells traveling through the blood stream as they will. 

There is still some theoretical issues that will need to be worked out. Before we are able to move forward in this endeavor we need to ask questions. How will the nanobot know if it is a bad cell or not? Will the nanobot live forever or quit after a period of time (Ethical discussion)? What will the success rate of repair once released? How long will it take to repair? These are just a few on top of my head that can be looked into. 


I think these discoveries will bring Medical and Technological research together to provide better health for all people in the world.