Engineering genetics to make the body kill cancer, growing artificial organs for transplant, and pills that can ‘talk’ to you: these are all examples of how the Fourth Industrial Revolution will radically change medical treatments by “blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological”. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming health and medicine due to the lightning-speed advances in genomics, genetic engineering, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, data science, AI, robotics, to name just a few,” reads a new report by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare . Here are some of the report’s highlights. 1. Regrowing damaged body parts: When your knees get creaky with age, the worn-out cartilage – the connective tissue that helps joints move smoothly – does not regenerate so there are only two options: painkillers or an operation to replace the joint. In the future, stem-cell technology might be...
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