Seriously...Bioengineers at Harvard have made the first ever cyborg tissue. It is essentially made out of neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels interwoven by nanowires and transistors that monitor bioelectric impulses. Using this technology, in the very soon future, researchers think control of cellular behavior is possible through just slight changes. This tissue is an actual working hybrid of living cells and electric components. The living components, being from rat test subjects. The leader of the group: Charles Leiber described it, saying that; "It allows one to effectively blur the boundary between electronic, inorganic systems and organic, biological ones,". Although these first tissues are limited in function, they are going to open huge gateways in medical science, nano-technology, and engineering. This is great news for the medical field especially. Think about robot organs being used to replace failing ones for someone who might die otherwise, or prosthetic that allow someone without limbs to get the chance to actually fully control a prosthetic arm or leg of robot tissue, or disease fighting nanorobots in the body. The future really has begun.
This is a HUGE achievement for mankind IMO. Should be all over the news tomorrow.
Cue the Terminator references...
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