Biomedical
| Emerging technology | Status | Potentially marginalized technologies and/or industries | Potential applications | Related articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial uterus | Theory, research | Incubator | extracorporeal pregnancy, Reprogenetics, same-sex procreation | |
| Body implants, prosthesis | Trials, from animal (e.g., brain implants) to human clinical (e.g., insulin pump implant), to commercial production (e.g. pacemaker, joint replacement, cochlear implant) | Various fields of medicine | Brain implant, retinal implant | Prosthetics, prosthetics in fiction |
| Cryonics | Theory, research | |||
| Expressive augmentation | Theory | Plastic surgery, make-up, body painting and some parts of costumes | Reproduction, cosmetics, and genetic diversity | |
| Genetic engineering | Research, development, commercialization | Animal husbandry, plant breeding | Creating and modifying species, bio-machines, eliminating genetic disorders (gene therapy) | Genetically modified food, genetic pollution |
| Head transplant, isolated brain | Theory, research | Brain transplant | ||
| Hibernation or suspended animation | Research, development, animal trials | Surgical anaesthesia | Organ transplantation, space travel, prolonged surgery, emergency care | |
| Kickstart Orthosis | Commercialized in the United States | Orthotics, Mobility aid | Wearable device that uses kinetic energy to help individuals in stroke recovery, or for rehabilitation for those with neurological injury such as multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or ALS to walk again | Kickstart (orthosis), Cadence Biomedical, |
| Life extension, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence | Research, experiments, animal testing | Existing treatments for age-related diseases | Increased life spans | Resveratrol, SRT1720 |
| Nanomedicines | Research, experiments, limited use | |||
| Personalized medicine, full genome sequencing | Research, experiments | Orphan drugs | Cancer management and preventive treatment; genetic disorders | |
| Regenerative medicine | Some laboratory trials | Life extension | ||
| Robotic surgery | Research, diffusion | Surgeons untrained in robotic surgery | ||
| Stem cell treatments | Research, experiments, phase I human trial spinal cord injury treatment (GERON), cultured cornea transplants | Other therapies | Treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries | Stem cell, stem cell treatments, Skin cell gun |
| Tissue engineering | Research, diffusion | Organ printing | ||
| Vitrification or cryoprotectant | Theory, some experiments | Ischemic damages | Organ transplantation, cryonics |
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