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Wouldn't it be cool to have thousands of things like these swimming around in your circulatory system, repairing damage and fighting illness as they found it?
by bovermyer 10y ago
Wouldn't it be cool to have thousands of things like these swimming around in your circulatory system, repairing damage and fighting illness as they found it?
- tantalor 10y agoYou already do, and they're free.
- Aardwolf 10y agoAnd pretty effective, though it could still be better. Imagine programmable ones. The only danger is malevolent ones :/
- stcredzero 10y agoSomeone, somewhere on the network would melt a person into goo just for the lulz, then justify it because the victim's security was so weak.
- marcosdumay 10y agoWell, your current ones are programmable. Medicine just didn't discover the perfect API, but there are some well known (and very effective) hacks.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoThey already are programmable, in the form of the adaptive immune response. Perhaps we can learn to program our own immune cells via the neuro-immunological axis. That danger is real too, in the form of autoimmune diseases. Although perhaps malevolent is too strong a word.
- m_mueller 10y agodeprogramming would be nice if we want to get rid of these autoimmune diseases.
- duaneb 10y ago> Imagine programmable ones. The only danger is malevolent ones Ahh yes, we would just make perfect versions of our own cells. What could go wrong?
- justinhj 10y agoReminds me of the movie Fantastic Voyage [1966] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/