SciShow: Robot Surgeons and 4 Other Medical Advances That Sound Like Sci-Fi

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Content of the Lesson: Modern medicine is wonderful, but even in a world where open-heart surgery and brain-scanning headsets sound almost mundane, some medical advances do truly seem like science fiction. From robot-assisted microsurgery to reanimated organs, here are 5 futuristic advancements that are actually around today. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Robot surgeons: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-robot-microsurgery-human-clinical-trial.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14188-w https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30261104 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424711/ Exosuits: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(19)30321-7/fulltext https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyJBBB8O_M CRISPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/04/811461486/in-a-1st-scientists-use-revolutionary-gene-editing-tool-to-edit-inside-a-patient?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20200304 https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr-timeline https://ir.editasmedicine.com/news-releases/news-release-details/allergan-and-editas-medicine-announce-dosing-first-patient https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gtr/genes/80184/ https://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/FullText/2019/10001/Surgical_Technique_for_Subretinal_Gene_Therapy_in.2.aspx Wound Healing: https://news.wisc.edu/its-not-a-shock-better-bandage-promotes-powerful-healing/ https://nanoscience.engr.wisc.edu/news.htm https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/watch-scientists-use-electricity-herd-skin-cells-sheep https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.1402000310 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2217050-a-hat-that-zaps-the-scalp-with-electricity-helps-reverse-male-balding/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/02/franken-tadpoles-see-eyes-their-backs Zombie organs: https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/view-data-reports/national-data/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26313559 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsxLCiDlIp8&feature=youtu.be&t=2476 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aor.13499 Image Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14188-w https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Needle_through_hair.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laproscopic_Surgery_Robot.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illu_lymph_capillary.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ACDF_oblique_annotated_english.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_animation-real-muscle.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_motor_cortex.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_35_03_04.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectroEncephalogram.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Structure_of_Cas9_in_Complex_with_Guide_RNA_and_Target_DNA.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Stages_of_CRISPR_immunity.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GRNA-Cas9.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nacktmaus_01.jpg


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