Amazing stuff being done in this field of study, I wonder what it will be like when my kids are grown up. Having personally lived with cancer, and having known many loved ones that died by it, I can only hope that research continues to exponentially expand, and one day might halt the deadly disease.
Though of course, stem cell implications are so broad that all manner of ailments might one day be cured. I look back on Craig Ventner's TED talk about literally programming cells, as you would program a piece of hardware, and I can't help but wonder when we'll begin to see real-world applications.
Here's that TED talk:
Already organs are being regrown and implanted, the deaf can hear and the blind can see minor changes in light. It's only a matter of time before permanent blindness and deafness are a thing of the past.
It is both an amazing and dangerous thing.
For more info on this topic, try these TED talks:
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