Technology

I no longer get excited about medical innovation because I know I'll never be able to afford to benefit from any of it. I'm lucky to have gotten vaccinated as a child while that was still legal for the poors

Our medical knowledge is shockingly rudimentary. Why we can't coax cells to do what they did anyway before is something we really need to understand to pretend to have any kind of medical knowledge. What passes for medicine is nothing more than 19th century++. See this, do that, body will heal. That's about it. I'm shocked every time I see someone in a wheelchair, how can we have LLMs and hallucinated movies but not understand how a few milligrams of organic matter organizes into nerves? etc etc etc

I am hoping that the absolutely bonkers computing power we are currently wasting on fart videos will be used to simulate matter in the future, here's to cheering on the AI crash!

Hell yeah. I'm gonna overuse this shit and just have 2 gigantic teeth. One on the top and one on the bottom. No more flossing for me. Fuse those bad boys together. I'll have the smile of an N64 game character.

How many times have I read this headline....

"Dental enamel has a unique structure, which gives enamel its remarkable properties that protect our teeth throughout life against physical, chemical, and thermal insults," said lead author Dr. Abshar Hasan

This man doesn't just disapprove of people mistreating their teeth, he is personally insulted by it. A true dentist.

The researchers used extracted human molars as an ex vivo model, first etching their enamel or dentine surfaces with acid to mimic different stages of tooth erosion. They then applied a single coating of the biomimetic elastin-like recombinamer (ELR) gel and let it dry. Finally, the teeth were immersed in carefully controlled mineralization baths that replicated the ionic environment of saliva.

Keep in mind this hasn't been shown to actually help teeth in someone's mouth.

How long until the dental restoration industry lobbies it out to be banned, so they can keep selling their photoshop jobs of people smiling with new teeth alongside crowns and implants, all at an inflated price?

Hopefully in the right place.

Finally, my dream of making teeth anywhere you can imagine could be realized.

Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.

I've heard of stuff like this for well over a decade. Seems like there's a new article about teeth regrowth every month, either enamel or full teeth. Still waiting on real results.

Can they make one to generate beaver enamel? I will accept the red color if I can chew through a tree.

It would be really incredible if they can manage to make this an OTC offering. This is huge.

I bet the catch here is it could accidentally grow anywhere in the body as long as it mimics what our mouth has (saliva). Imagine growing enamel in our tongues or throat.