New Medical Gel Helps Regrow Bones

[Strazdas]

This and other websites always have had lots of articles like this, ones that claim some medicine or technology is "just on the horizon!" and will "make _____ go the way of the dinosaur!" very soon. Then a few years later it turns out that either it isn't going to work the way they claimed it would and/or that there has been little to no progress made at all, and that's if it's lucky and actually is heard of again.

technology progresses slowly. such is the nature of rigid testing before being able to apply to humans. and even 10 years later when you can finally legally apply it to humans it will take you another 15 to make the hospitals start using it regullary. we get reports about something they just discovered/invented, it may turn out usable, it may not, very rarely we get report where these tests have been already done, let alone where public use starts going. There are things that have faster lifecycle, such as computer tech usually gets widely used 1-2 years after its inception, but those are rare cases and most technology actually take decades to reach mainstream use and become "the norm".
"The future is now" is never correct, because the future is always couple decades away.

P.S. remmeber that fussion reactors by 2015 article. im still waiting on a followup.

 

[immortalfrieza]

This and other websites always have had lots of articles like this, ones that claim some medicine or technology is "just on the horizon!" and will "make _____ go the way of the dinosaur!" very soon. Then a few years later it turns out that either it isn't going to work the way they claimed it would and/or that there has been little to no progress made at all, and that's if it's lucky and actually is heard of again.

technology progresses slowly. such is the nature of rigid testing before being able to apply to humans. and even 10 years later when you can finally legally apply it to humans it will take you another 15 to make the hospitals start using it regullary. we get reports about something they just discovered/invented, it may turn out usable, it may not, very rarely we get report where these tests have been already done, let alone where public use starts going. There are things that have faster lifecycle, such as computer tech usually gets widely used 1-2 years after its inception, but those are rare cases and most technology actually take decades to reach mainstream use and become "the norm".
"The future is now" is never correct, because the future is always couple decades away.

P.S. remmeber that fussion reactors by 2015 article. im still waiting on a followup.

True. Personally I think they shouldn't announce stuff like this until they've already gone through the testing process and have been proven viable first.

 

[Strazdas]

True. Personally I think they shouldn't announce stuff like this until they've already gone through the testing process and have been proven viable first.

I would agree, but i think that drumming interest in science form public is important because thats basically the only way to get proper funding now.

Next thing you know, scientists have created a med-gel that regrows brain cells within the brain.

I know it sounds impossible, but with the technology that we have now... I wouldn't be to surprised.
Seeing how Mass Effect had somehow predicted this- is beyond me. I mean, even the color/texture/form .. everything about this gel looks exactly like med-gel from the game lol.

brain cells themselves - perhaps. the neuron connections - not likely at all. our brain rewrites our neuron connections all the time. in fact each time we remmeber something we delete and rewrite that memory anew. ironically, things we remember about constantly actually get further from reality due to our memory changing all the time thna those we have forgotten and thne suddenly remmeber. the brain is.... very complicated.