Tiny biobots made from human cells promote neuron growth

[Wishful]

https://newatlas.com/medical/human-tracheal-cells-biobots-promote-neuron-growth/

This sounds nifty. Neural damage is one of those things we haven't been able to repair. These new biobots seem to manage to do that. This sounds very Star Trekish to me. Add in some biobots to remove neural scar tissue, and you might be able to restore lost function from neural damage.

Hmmm, I also see potential for SF horror movies.

 

[Viala]

Yeah, if they can do that, they can do a lot of other things as well.
How they are being delivered to the body and how they're removed from the body?

 

[Wishful]

and how they're removed from the body?

"Ooops! We forgot something."

At this stage, they're just using cells grown in a dish. For consumer products, there's work yet to be done. Removal without leaving unwanted junk behind is important. Reliable targeting is pretty important too. Mistakenly spurring growth of pain-signalling nerves might be really really unfortunate.

Lots of potential for beneficial use. Lots of potential for misuse. Shall we tell people with spine or brain injuries that "We won't allow further R&D because there might be problems if it's not done right?" The same would have applied to Uggh and his chipped flint, and Thog with his "fire" stuff.

 

[Viala]

"Ooops! We forgot something."

Only the most important thing. Then how to deactivate them or destroy them. Well it sounds like a perfect bioweapon. The potential would be huge and I imagine that they could do almost everything with it. If we agree to it or not would not make any difference because they'd use it anyways.

Biobot humans and transhumanism era. People would be BMOs, biobot modified organisms. Wonder if they would patent them lol and require subscription payments. Maybe we're already there, only we didn't notice.

 

[Wishful]

Wonder if they would patent them lol and require subscription payments.

Constant updates too. Maybe they'd print ads on your body too (Super-Extra-Premium subscription is ad-free!).

 

[Viala]

Constant updates too. Maybe they'd print ads on your body too (Super-Extra-Premium subscription is ad-free!).

That's probably where it's headed. You could also avoid ads for waiving your privacy. And then have to pay for premium anyways, of course.

It's funny that it is easier to invent nanotechnology than to find out what causes some diseases and how to prevent them. It can't be that hard.