TOP 22 BREAKTHROUGHS OF 2022 VS. 1922 https://www.diamandis.com/blog/author/peter-h-diamandis excerpt: Back in 1922... Let’s rewind 100 years and look at the pace of innovation a century ago. In 1922, the world was just emerging from the aftermath of the Spanish flu—1922 ushered in a new era for progress and rebirth. In that year, in the United States: There were ~12 million cars on the road The price of gas was 11 cents per gallon The Ford Model-T cost a mere $319 Only 40% of Americans had electricity in their homes Only 35% had a telephone Life expectancy was 58 years for men and 61 years for women (about 20 years less than today) Top breakthrough inventions 1922? There were ONLY 7 (that I could find)... The first water skis were demonstrated using wooden boards and a clothesline The first manually retractable, convertible car hardtop was invented The electric blender was invented for making malts and milkshakes The radial arm saw was invented to cut and shape long pieces of stock material The use of insulin for the first time in a person to treat diabetes Vitamin E was discovered The Australians invented Vegemite In today’s blog, I’ll identify the top 22 breakthroughs/innovations of 2022. For each, I’ll describe “what it is” and “why it matters.” We’ll look at breakthroughs in 7 categories: Space, Energy, Health, Food, Robotics, Quantum, and AI. It’s safe to say that the speed of innovation has accelerated a fair amount over the past century. Let’s dive in… more at the link
(#5) Synthesizing Life Without Sperm or Eggs What it is: This summer, scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel were able to grow mouse embryos in a lab without the use of sperm, egg, or a womb. The scientists were able to do so by growing the mouse embryos inside a bioreactor made up of stem cells cultivated in a Petri dish. Using a mechanical uterus combined with a novel cocktail of stem cells—some of which were chemically programmed to overexpress genes that switched on the development of the placenta and yolk-sac—the team produced embryos with gene expression patterns 95% similar to natural mouse embryos of the same age. The embryos developed normally, elongating on Day 3, folding their neural tubes and budding tails by Day 6, and developing beating hearts by Day 8. This marked the first time ever that scientists successfully managed to grow fully synthetic mouse embryos outside the womb. Why it matters: By watching the embryos in a lab instead of a uterus, scientists can get a better understanding as to how some pregnancies might fail and how to prevent this from happening. This also marks a major leap forward in our ability to grow a supply of available organs for transplant. Perhaps this will even pave the way for new treatment strategies in diseases like cancer. Imagine, for instance, a patient with untreatable leukemia that needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. In the future, we may be able to biopsy skin cells from that patient, rewind those skin cells back into stem cells that are grown in naive conditions, and then put those cells into this specialized bioreactor system. The final result? A stockpile of bone marrow stem cells that can efficiently be given to that same leukemia patient without them having to anxiously wait for a donor match. SOURCE: https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/01...ed-from-stem-cells-without-sperm-eggs-uterus/ Crazy...With lower fertility rates, it's nice to have the option of making petri dish mice babies. Also like the stories about zombie organs and MRNA vax continuing to revolutionize that field.
Here comes the vat grown meat. @Buck Turgidson Wake me up when they can reverse my age and eliminate the need for me to sleep. Drastically reducing the need for me to eat would be a bonus.
I'm a foodie. Eating more but paying for it less would be great. There will be a market for a "smart" tapeworm for lazy folks with 1st world problems.
The "smart" part would make it a symbiote. Like if I had high cholesterol, then the tapeworm poops out medication to drop my LDL levels.
