NASA creates implant that can instantly diagnose and treat anything from radiation exposure to infec - Polidicks

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;34611652]Cut their funding and they only get more badass.[/QUOTE] Cut funding to $3.96 a week. They invent magic.

[QUOTE=The Aussie;34616752]Cut funding to $3.96 a week. They invent magic.[/QUOTE] "We made a handheld laser capable of cutting through oxygen particles in the air, also it cures hepatitis. Can we eat now?"

I want a job in NASA.

[QUOTE=Sickle;34616028]Never heard of pharmaceutical patent shelving, eh?[/QUOTE]Yeah, because a corporation is going to hide away something that will make them millions of dollars.

This is relevant to my interests.

Wait... It's in a needle? Get out NASA,it's uselles the instant u put it on a needle.

You're post is useless

And it will also work as a tracking device so the goverment can spy on you....For Free! :eng101:

[QUOTE=mac338;34615674]As cool as DARPA is I think they should be doing more stuff like this.[/QUOTE] They are focused on aviation, communication, and weapon technology mostly.

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;34611652]Cut their funding and they only get more badass.[/QUOTE] Kind of a catch-22 though. "NASA, you're useless, so we're cutting your funding." "WHAT?! Well, I'll show YOU who's worthless!" *months of tinkering later* "HA! SEE?! Look at what we made on a shoe-string budget! Now give us our old budget back!" "Why? You're doing just fine on what you have." "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU-"

This is why NASA should have a higher budget instead of the Military.

[QUOTE=LtKyle2;34622000]This is why NASA should have a higher budget instead of the Military.[/QUOTE] Then weapons eventually transpire to space.

This is amazing

This seems too good to be true. [sub][sub]it probably is[/sub][/sub]

[QUOTE=goon165;34613517]NASA with funding: Goes to Moon. NASA with no funding: Creates breakthrough medical Devices. Who said NASA was useless again?, Oh right Newt Gingrich, Fuck that guy.[/QUOTE] Doesn't he want to build a moon base within 8 years. How does he intend to do that if NASA are useless.

[QUOTE=Jsm;34612793]Loads of things NASA invents end up in every day usage.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off]Relevant[/url]

I'm really excited about this, my girlfriend's diabetic and seeing her cured someday would make me so happy.

One thing about these 'cures for everything' is; I hate it when the thread starts to die down, and then it slowly sinks to the bottom until no one remembers this shit. It's weird.

With the general issue with the creation of cancer treatment being the method of delivering the chemicals to the cancer, since most things that kill cancer cells also happen to kill many of your organs... What would happen if you put one of these with said treatment, INSIDE a cancer?

[QUOTE=DireAvenger;34632312]With the general issue with the creation of cancer treatment being the method of delivering the chemicals to the cancer, since most things that kill cancer cells also happen to kill many of your organs... What would happen if you put one of these with said treatment, INSIDE a cancer?[/QUOTE] Absolutely nothing. The problem with cancer is that it's hard to find cytotoxins with specificity to it, because cancer's machinery is so alike to our own, in fact, it is our own. Most of the cytotoxins that exist target cancer by targetting things that divide very, very fast, like oxiliplatin. Cancer isn't just a blob of flesh, it's a cell mutated with activated oncogenes, and a mutated p53 gene. It will divide constantly, there is no limit imposed by telomeres, mutation doesn't matter, in fact, it empowers cancer. If you were to just plop this capsule in a tumor (if the tumor was even big enough), absolutely nothing would happen unless you fitted the capsule with cytotoxic drugs, and that would be in itself a waste of time because one, chemotherapy isn't a constant thing, it's a rigorous one-time thing (until another mutation occurs that pops a cell into a constant S-1 phase, giving rise to an army of tumors). Secondly, cancer divides faster than pretty much anything, so it would [b]very[/b] quickly become resistant to the medication being secreted by the capsule. and, even if it did somehow magically have specificity for cancer, it would be useless because the patient's progenitor cells would still be infected (e.g: hematopoetic stem cells in leukemia, that's why we remove bone marrow during chemotherapy), and the cancer would just regenerate itself ad infinitum. [editline]a[/editline] Also, you can't really put metal complex's (most cytotoxic drugs) in these capsules, because they don't actually allow anything to leave because of the carbon nanotube walls (although aerobic respiration is possible through dissolved oxygen diffused through the walls), you have to put in cells capable of synthesizing proteins.

[QUOTE=Helix Alioth;34633675]Absolutely nothing. The problem with cancer is that it's hard to find cytotoxins with specificity to it, because cancer's machinery is so alike to our own, in fact, it is our own. Most of the cytotoxins that exist target cancer by targetting things that divide very, very fast, like oxiliplatin. Cancer isn't just a blob of flesh, it's a cell mutated with activated oncogenes, and a mutated p53 gene. It will divide constantly, there is no limit imposed by telomeres, mutation doesn't matter, in fact, it empowers cancer. If you were to just plop this capsule in a tumor (if the tumor was even big enough), absolutely nothing would happen unless you fitted the capsule with cytotoxic drugs, and that would be in itself a waste of time because one, chemotherapy isn't a constant thing, it's a rigorous one-time thing (until another mutation occurs that pops a cell into a constant S-1 phase, giving rise to an army of tumors). Secondly, cancer divides faster than pretty much anything, so it would [b]very[/b] quickly become resistant to the medication being secreted by the capsule. and, even if it did somehow magically have specificity for cancer, it would be useless because the patient's progenitor cells would still be infected (e.g: hematopoetic stem cells in leukemia, that's why we remove bone marrow during chemotherapy), and the cancer would just regenerate itself ad infinitum. [editline]a[/editline] Also, you can't really put metal complex's (most cytotoxic drugs) in these capsules, because they don't actually allow anything to leave because of the carbon nanotube walls (although aerobic respiration is possible through dissolved oxygen diffused through the walls), you have to put in cells capable of synthesizing proteins.[/QUOTE] This is probably one of the most educated posts I've seen on Facepunch.

[QUOTE=Jsm;34627464]Doesn't he want to build a moon base within 8 years. How does he intend to do that if NASA are useless.[/QUOTE] I never said anything about it him making sense.

[QUOTE=Master X;34612953]This doesn't sound physically possible. I mean, carbon nanotubes are supposed to be the shit, but [I]this?[/I][/QUOTE] Dude it's essentially like a pill that releases it's shit REALLY slowly. Honestly I don't understand why this is doubtable. [editline]11th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=DireAvenger;34632312]With the general issue with the creation of cancer treatment being the method of delivering the chemicals to the cancer, since most things that kill cancer cells also happen to kill many of your organs... What would happen if you put one of these with said treatment, INSIDE a cancer?[/QUOTE] I personally favour the idea of gold nanshell injections and then cooking the tumour out with a low intensity IR laser.