Moving medicine forward
In the time it will take you to read this book, there may have been hundreds of medical discoveries that bring us closer to a Healthy High-Tech Body than ever before. New discoveries in medicine are moving at an almost unimaginable rate. In a perfect marriage of biology and technology, scientists are using knowledge from the fields of medicine and engineering to help us all live longer, and live better.
We live in a world of paradox. We still cannot cure the common cold (although we're getting close), but we can successfully exchange failing organs for ones that bring us back to life. We can't solve the problem of the epidemic of obesity, but we have broken the entire human genetic code—not that we even know what that really means for the future of mankind. We know—almost—how to build babies in petri dishes; we just don't know if it's right to do so.
The science of health is now spread out in many directions, with research projects exploring many fronts, some of which are described below. This chapter is not about predictio ... read full excerpt from: Oz Garcia's The Healthy High-Tech Body ebook
