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Technologies to Promote Self-healing

Posted November 27, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Comic book heroes and cartoon characters that can heal themselves are the stuff of fiction. But, wait, not so fast, says the U.S. Department of Defense. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, has embarked on a program called ElectRx to develop technologies that, in effect, allow the human body to restore itself to health. This novel approach to self-healing is based on electro therapies that target the peripheral nervous system to promote self-healing, reduce dependence on traditional medications, and provide new treatment options for illnesses.


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11/27/2014 8:34 AM

Sounds like "...controlled cancer..." (which I wouldn't trust) with all of its unintentional consequences!

Monsanto™ in a syringe?

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12/01/2014 10:47 AM

Controlled Cancer? That's kind of what the marvel character Deadpool has. The experiment that gave him his Healing Factor also gave him incurable cancer, so the cancer is constantly eating away at his body, and he's healing up right behind it.

That eating-and-healing has led his brain to be Swiss cheese most of the time, and he has gone completely insane, living under the delusion that he's a fictional character in a comic book world. (Don't think too hard on that, just assume it's an excuse for him to 'break the fourth wall' whenever he wants, in-universe. He talks to the reader and people around him see him talking to empty space.)

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12/02/2014 3:51 PM

Sort of like in here?

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12/03/2014 10:48 AM

Hey, I do *NOT* talk to empty space.

I talk to my coffee mug.

Usually I ask it, "Why do you not have coffee in you?"

Wait, I'm talking .. to the lack of coffee .. in a coffee mug ... ... ...

Hmm...

I guess I *DO* talk to empty space. Either that or I'm doing 'office friendly' Captain Jack Sparrow impresonations. ("Why is there no rum? There should be rum." Remember at the end of the third movie, when Jack was in the lifeboat with the map to the Fountain of Youth, and he pulled out the Magic Compass that points to what you want most in the world. It wouldn't stop pointing at the rum until he picked up the bottle as if to say, 'See, NOW I have rum-in-hand, you don't have to keep telling me where it is.'")

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12/03/2014 11:06 AM

LOL

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12/03/2014 11:33 AM

"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitstaff. And try the veal! Yes, the chef made me say that last one."

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12/03/2014 12:35 PM

Now if they can just cure diabetic neuropathy, count me in.

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