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Richard M. Satava, MD FACS Professor of Surgery University of Washington and Senior Science Advisor US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Challenges in Designing Technology Future Healthcare and the Orthopedic Surgery Simulation Summit American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Chicago, IL 4 November, 2011 Hospital of the Future of Richard M. Satava, MD FACS Financial Support: None (… but still hoping) Consulting: Karl Storz ISIS Support Stryker SimuLab US Surgical Investment InTouch Technologies, Inc * There will be no discussion of products from these companies Presenter Financial Disclosure Slide

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Richard M. Satava, MD FACSProfessor of Surgery

University of Washington

and

Senior Science Advisor

US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Challenges in Designing

Technology Future Healthcare

and the

Orthopedic Surgery Simulation Summit

American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

Chicago, IL

4 November, 2011

Hospital of the Future

of

Richard M. Satava, MD FACS

Financial Support: None (… but still hoping)

Consulting: Karl Storz

ISIS Support Stryker

SimuLab

US Surgical

Investment InTouch Technologies, Inc

* There will be no discussion of products from these companies

Presenter Financial Disclosure Slide

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“The Future is not what it used to be”

….Yogi Berra

Disruptive Visions

What does your patient want?

Super Her

Arrives in the office and expects:

Infinite amount of time

Instant diagnosis

Immediate treatment

Absolutely no pain

Leaves cured!

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Physician and Nurse as

Expectations are high . . .

. . . Challenges are great

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What This Is NOT About

What This Is All About*

Replacing healthcare providers with robots

Dehumanizing patient care

Enhancing healthcare providers capabilities

Freeing time for more patient contact

* Lessons learned from the 58th Congress of the AORN, Philadelphia Pa, March 2011

New technologies that are emerging

from Information Age discoveries

are driving our basic approach

in all areas of healthcare education

. . . EXAMPLES

Fundamental Concept

“The Future is here …

. . . it’s the Information Age”

Current Visions

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Why Robots?

The Touch Lab, MITMovie: Alien

S

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The Industry Standard

CAD/CAM

Virtual Design

Virtual Prototyping

Virtual Testing & Evaluation

HolomerTotal body-scan

for total knowledge

Satava March, 2004Virtual Soldier Program

Information Representation of a PatientMedical equivalent of CAD/CAM

Multi-modal total body scan on

every trauma patient in 15 seconds

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Why modeling & simulation,

imaging and robotics

• Healthcare is the only industry without a

computer representation of its “product”

•A robot is not a machine . . .

it is an information system with arms . . .

• A CT scanner is not an imaging system

it is an information system with eyes . . .

thus

• An operating room is an information system with . . .

Original courtesy of Joel Jensen, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Minimally Invasive& Open Surgery

Pre-operative planning

Surgical Rehearsal

Intra-operative navigation

Remote Surgery

Energy- directed surgery

Total Integration of Surgical Care

Simulation & TrainingPre-operative Warmup

Risk

Mgmt

Credential

Privileges

Patient

Safety

Central

Supply

Quality

Improve

Electronic

Record

Total Integration of Surgical Care

Information

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From tissue and instruments

to

Information and energy*

* “The Information Age is about changing from objects and atoms to bits & bytes”

Nicholas Negroponte “Being Digital” - 1995

The Fundamental Change

Intelligent Instruments

Courtesy Blake Hannaford, PhD, BioRobotics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle 2009

Point-of-care Noninvasive Therapy

High Intensity Focused Ultrasoundfor

Non-invasive Acoustic hemostasis

HIFU

Courtesy Larry Crum, Univ Washington Applied Physics Lab

Mechanics to energy

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Courtesy Larry Crum,

Univ Washington

Applied Physics Lab

2003

Insure safety of other cells and tissues

Painless

Sterilization without supplies

100% effective

30 sec, Continuous DBD, 8kHz

Power: 0.8 W/cm2

Plasma Medicine

a. Low temperature (room temperature)

b. Normal pressure (not a vacuum)

c. Low energy required to generate

d. Normal atmosphere – room air (not noble gasses – argon, etc)

e. Untethered (hand held, battery generated)

f. Tolerated by human tissue (eukaryotic cells)

g. Surface phenomenon (< 1 mm penetration)

h. Kills all known biologic agents

Free electron Di-electric Barrier Discharge (FE-DBD)

The Science

Plasma Medicine

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Sterilization & decontamination

Cutting, coagulation & ablation

Surgical instrument & procedure

Wound healing & regeneration

Molecular activation & inhibition control

Cancer & disease control/cure

Clinically Relevant Applications

The LSTATLife Support for Trauma and Transport

Courtesy of Integrated Medical Systems, Signal Hill, CA

“ . . . with a fully functional ICU ”

• Defibrillator

• Ventilator

• Suction

• Monitoring

• Blood Chemistry

Analysis

• 3-Channel Fluid/Drug

Infusion

•Data Storage and

Transmission

• On-board Battery

• On-board Oxygen

• Accepts Off-Board

Power and Oxygen

Total Patient Awareness

Bring the hospital to the casualty, not the casualty to the hospital . . .

212th MASH Deployed with LSTAT - Combat Support Hospital

LSTAT Deployment to Kosovo - March 2000

Courtesy of Integrated Medical Systems, Signal Hill, CA

LSTAT- lite

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Classic Education and Examination

What is the REVOLUTION in Surgical Education?

Training for New Technical Skills

Halstedian Model: See One, Do One, Teach One

The Revolution

is

. . . Now

Roughly 100 year cycles

(1908 – Flexner Report)

Inter-professional Education

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Improved Patient Safety

through

Advanced Medical Education

ManikinVirtual Reality

It’s all about . . .

Technology

Current areas of simulation

VirtualVirtual Live Constructive

ManikinVR

CAI

Models, tissue, animals

MethodologyObjective StructuredAssessment of Technical Skills

Richard Reznick, Univ of Toronto - 1998

OSATS

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• Objective Training of Technical Skills

Simulators (technology)

Curriculum (training method)

• Assessment of Cognitive and Technical Skills

Criterion-based tools

Objective metrics

Two Components of the Revolution

Using Modeling and Simulation

Synthetic Cadaver

From website of Syndaver Labs, Tampa, FL http://syndaver.com

Realistic synthetic tissues., organs etc

Vascular system which can pump ‘blood’

CR, MRI, US and fluoroscopy compatible

Anatomy and physiology teaching

Procedural training

Surgical rehearsalUses P

ropert

ies

Mannequin-based Simulator - Realistic physiologic response

Individual and Team Training

Human Patient Simulator 2005Courtesy METI, Inc Sarasota, FL 2006

First Mannequin VR Simulator – David Gaba 1984Courtesy MedSim, Inc - 1991

The Realization

The Dream

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Ready - Stop & Time out

Set - Warm up & Check List

Go - OK to begin

Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons (SLS) – URL =

The Importance of Check-lists

Nurses Residents

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OR

of

Pre-op ICUHand-off Hand-off

Real Pre-op Holding Area

Pre-operative Planning and Surgical Rehearsal

Courtesy Jacques Marescaux, IRCAD, Strasbourg, France, 2003.

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Endovascular Simulators(Surgical Rehearsal)

Graphic

overlay

Patient specific image

Pre-operative Warm-up

Courtesy Marshall Smith, MD

Kanav Kahol, PhD

Portable Simulator rolled into the OR

25% errors 45% efficiency

25% time

Basic Skills

Simple Procedures

Team Training

Advanced Procedures

Continuity of Care

Comprehensive Curriculum

Task

Deconstruction

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“Penelope” – robotic scrub nurse

Michael Treat MD, Columbia Univ, NYC. 2003

ROBOT SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC

Currently in Clinical Trials

Integrating Surgical Systems for AutonomyThe Operating Room (personnel) of the Future

100,000

Borrowing from the standard practices of other industries

Surgeon Assistant Scrub Nurse Circulating nurse

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Demonstration of Phase 1

Operating Room with No People

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA January, 2007

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA January, 2007

Demonstration of Phase 1

Operating Room with No People

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SATAVA 7 July, 1999

DARPA

Fighter Pilots – until 2002 Fighter Pilots – Beyond 2003Predator 2003

28 Training & Simulation Journal August/September 2006

“Remote Pilots”

A last bastion of guts-and-glory aviation is falling, as

the U.S. Air Force prepares to unveil a new breed of

unmanned aircraft pilots. Known as “remote pilots”,

they’ll wear wings. They’ll fly aircraft. But chances are

many will never climb into a cockpit. .

Senior leaders have yet to approve the new

Undergraduate Remote Pilot Training (URT), but Air

Force officers familiar with the project expect approval

by the end of the year. Instead of sticking reluctant

manned aviators behind a console, the Air Force will

groom remote pilots from the start to fly what the

service now calls unmanned aerial systems

In Hospital OR Free- standing same day surgery In-Home surgery??

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Eric LaPorta, Barcelona, Spain 2005

New Concepts for OR of the Future“The OR Without Lights”

Hybrid Operating RoomImage-guided Surgery

Triangle Biosystems,Inc

Neurosurgical Interventional SuiteReal-time multi-modality monitoring of imaging and physiologic data

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Radiology or Surgery?

Non-invasive tumor ablation for solid organs (0.3mm accuracy)

Surgeon should be part of planning and implementation team

Surgeons may want to ‘adopt’ implementation

Accuray(Cyberknife)

Emergency Room Trauma Portal

+ TRAUMA PORTAL +

106% of severe trauma patients get CT scans Adrian Park, Univ MD Shock Trauma Service, 2009

Robotic Medical Assistant

SATAVA 7 July, 1999

DARPA

Nursing shortage crisis

Applicable at all levels

Hospitals

Clinics

Nursing Home

Assisted living

Courtesy Yulun Wang, InTouch Technologies, Inc, Goleta, CA

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Humanoid Robot - navigation

Courtesy Boston Dynamics, Boston MA 2012

SATAVA 7 July, 1999

DARPA

The Information Age is NOT the Future

The Information Age is the Present ...

There is something else out there . . . .

Disruptive Visions

http://depts.washington.edu/biointel

“The Future is not what it used to be !”

- Yogi Berra

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What is radically new?

Biomimetic Micro-robot

Courtesy Sandia National Labs

Capsule camera for gastrointestinal endoscopy

Courtesy Paul Swain, London, England

Courtesy D. Oleynkov, Univ Nebraska

Courtesy Danny Scott

Texas Southwestern

Dallas, TX

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Core capsule

systems: optical

system, telemetry

and power

systems,

navigation etc.

Diagnostic

system: sensors

for enhanced

diagnosis

Therapeutic /

biopsy system:

devices for tissue

manipulation

Locomotion

system: actuators

for mobility.

Supported by the European Union as an Integrated Project

Information Society Technologies - Contract Number 033970

www.vector-project.comCourtesy Marc O. Schurr &

The VECTOR consortium - 2008

External magnetic guidance

Self-propelling Gastrointestinal EndoscopeCore functions

Locomotion Modular functions

Fluid environment

Vibratory locomotionWalking robot with legs

Internal Locomotion Actuators Currently Investigated

Source : A Menciassi et al., CRIM, Scuola Sant‘Anna, Pisa

Submarine

Source: M. Sfakiotakis et al., FORTH, Heraklion

Supported by the European Union as an Integrated Project

Information Society Technologies - Contract Number 033970

www.vector-project.com

Courtesy Marc O. Schurr &

The VECTOR consortium - 2008

Acrobat Document

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY

Femtosecond Laser(1 x 10 –15 sec)

Time of Flight Spectroscopy

Cellular opto-poration

Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos NM

Surgical Console for Cellular Surgery

Courtesy Prof Jaydev Desai, Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA 2005

Courtesy Prof Jaydev Desai, Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA 2005

Motion Commands

Surgical Console for Cellular Surgery

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Courtesy: Rahul G. Thakar, Ph.D. 2007

Molecular Imaging

BioSurgery

Femtosecond Laser

Specific DNA targeting

Atomic Force Microscopy

Sonoporation of an ion channel

New Surgical Tools

Surgical Cockpit

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Greg Kovacs. Stanford University, 1990

“BrainGate” John Donohue, Brown University, 2001

Richard Andersen, CalTech, 2003

Recorded activity for intended movement to a briefly flashed target.

TARGET MOVEMENT

Time

PLAN

Courtesy Richard Andersen, Cal Tech, Pasadena, CA

Brain Machine Interface – Controlling motion with thoughts

Miguel Nicholai, Duke University, 2002

Direct brain implant control of robot arm

Brain Machine Interface – Controlling motion with thoughts

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Brain Machine Interface – Controlling motion with thoughts

Courtesy University of Hawaii 2008 Emotiv Technologies, 2009

a) Rheo Bionic knee Ossur, Reyknavik, Iceland

b) C-leg Otto Bock, Minneapolis, MN

Intelligent Prostheses Tissue Engineering

Liver Scaffolding Artificial Blood Vessel

J. Vacanti, MD MGH March, 2000

Artificial Ear

Replacing Human Body Parts

Organs which have been grown synthetically

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3-D Printing (Stereo-lithography)

The Future of Surgery

3-D Printing (Stereo-lithography)

The Future of Everything?

Beyond Internet

Thingiverse

Internet of things

Replicator by MakerBot, Inc

Spider silk protein as biomaterial -BioSteel

Nexia Biotechnologies, Montreal Canada

Cross section of

synthetic fiber

Spinnerette of spiderOrb spider - web

Genetically Re-engineering the Body

ScienceDaily (July 27, 2010) — Researchers

have long envied spiders' ability to manufacture

silk that is light-weighted while as strong and

tough as steel or Kevlar. Indeed, finer than

human hair, five times stronger by weight than

steel, and three times tougher than the top quality

man-made fiber Kevlar, spider dragline silk is an

ideal material for numerous applications.

Professor Lee and his colleagues pieced

together the silk gene from chemically

synthesized oligonucleotides, and then inserted it

into the expression host, an industrially safe

bacteria Escherichia coli Moreover, many

other silk-like biomaterials such as elastin,

collagen, byssus, resilin, have similar features to

spider silk protein

Native-Like Spider Silk Produced in

Metabolically Engineered Bacteria

E.Coli engineered to produce silk

Prof Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of

Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea

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Floss DM, Sack M, Stadlmann J, Rademacher T, Scheller J, Stöger E, Fischer

R, Conrad U.. Biochemical and functional characterization of anti-HIV

antibody-ELP fusion proteins from transgenic plants.. Plant Biotechnol J.

2008 May;6(4):379-91.

Genetically Re-engineering Food & Drugs

Tobacco Plants Make HIV AntibodyFor the first time, a plant-produced antibody gets the

green light for clinical trials in the United Kingdom.

By Cristina Luiggi | July 21, 2011

Last month, a monoclonal antibody produced in the leaves

of tobacco plants entered phase I clinical trials in the United

Kingdom. The antibody, known as P2G12, recognizes an

HIV surface protein and is expected to help stop the

transmission of the virus, although it has never been tested

in humans.

This is the first plant-produced antibody to be cleared for

clinical trials by the Medicines and Healthcare Products

Agency Producing the antibody using tobacco plants grown

in a greenhouse in Germany is 10 to 100 times cheaper than

using conventional methods employing bacteria or

mammalian cells, Smart Planet reports

“Monoclonal antibodies can be made in plants to the

same quality as those made using existing conventional

production systems,” Professor Julian Ma from St George’s

University, London and joint coordinator of the project, told

“That is something many people did not believe could

be achieved.”

Posted on: 27 Jun 2011, 08:43 PM

Test tube-burger coming soon

London: Coming soon, the world's first test-tube

hamburger, say scientists. A team at Maastricht

University in the Netherlands claims that the first such

laboratory-made burger could be a year away. It will

have meat grown from stem cells, paving the way for

eating meat without animals being slaughtered.

The Scientists are currently developing the burger

which will be grown from 10,000 stem cells extracted

from cattle, which are then multiply more than a billion

times to produce muscle tissue similar to beef. The

product is called "in vitro" meat .

Prof Mark Post, who is leading the team, was quoted

as saying, "I don't see any way you could rely on old-

fashioned livestock in the coming decades. In vitro meat

will be the only choice left.” .

A colleague of Prof Post said, "When we are eating a

hamburger we don't think, 'I'm eating a dead cow'. And

when people are already far from what they eat, it's not

too hard to see them

Prof. Mark Post, Maastricht University Netherlands, 2011

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Brian M. Barnes, Institute of Arctic Biology , University of Alaska Fairbanks 11/02

Institute of Arctic Biology’s

Toolik Field Station,

Alaska's North Slope

Suspended Animation (Auto-anesthesia – FRAMR)

metabolic rate 0.5 0.01 (2%)

active hibernating

body temp. 37oC -2oC

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function and translation suppressed

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Confidential

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Hypothesis

Design

Experiment

Results

Report

In Science and Discovery,

there is always Risk . . .

The Scientific Method

… make evidence-based decisions

The only thing more dangerous

than trying too hard and failing …

… is not trying hard enough

and succeeding ! Michelangelo 1503

Experience is the name everyone

gives to their mistakes - Oscar Wilde

Be careful of

unintended

consequences

• The rate of new discovery is accelerating exponentially

• The changes raise profound fundamental issues

• Moral and ethical solutions will take decades to resolve

Technologies Will Change the Future

Differing responses to scientific discovery by various sectors

TIME

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Business

Sector

Technology

Healthcare

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Technology is Neutral - it is neither good or evil

It is up to us to breathe the moral and ethical life

into these technologies

And then apply them with empathy and compassion

for each and every patient

The Moral Dilemma

February 12, 2004

South Korean team demonstrates

cloning efficiency for humans similar to pigs, cattle | Thersa Tamkins

After outlandish claims, a few media circuses, and some near misses by legitimate researchers, a team of South Korean researchers reports the production of cloned human embryos. The findings, were released Wednesday (Science, DOI:10.1126 /science.1094515, February 12, 2004).Wook Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University used somatic cell nuclear

transfer to produce 30 human blastocysts and a single embryonic stem cell line; SCNT-hES-1. Using 242 oocytes and cumulus cells from 16 unpaid donors, the group achieved a cloning efficiency of 19 to 29%, on par with that seen in cattle (25%) and pigs (26%).

Human embryos

cloned

Chinese Cloning Control RequiredTuesday 16 April, 2002, 10:41 GMT 11:41 UK

Strict ethical guidelines are needed in China to

calm public fears about new cell technologies such

as cloning, the country's leading scientist said.

Professor Ching-Li Hu, the former deputy

director of the World Health Organization, was

speaking at the Seventh Human Genome Meeting

in Shanghai. His call follows recent reports that

Chinese scientists are making fast progress in

these research fields.

One group in the Central South University

in Changsa is said to be producing human

embryo clones, while another team from the Sun

Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in

Guangzhou is reported to have fused human and

rabbit cells to make tissues for research.

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Genetically “designed” child1997

Jeffery Steinberg, MD Fertility Institutes of Los Angeles

Five "designer babies"

created for stem cell

harvest

Five healthy babies have been born to provide stem

cells for siblings with serious non-heritable conditions.

This is the first time "savoir siblings" have

been created to treat children whose condition is not

genetic, says the medical team.The five babies were

born after a technique called preimplantation genetic

diagnosis (PGD) was used to test embryos for a tissue

type match to the ailing siblings, reports the team, led

by Anver Kuliev at the Reproductive Genetics Institute

in Chicago, US.The aim in these cases was to provide

stem cells for transplantation to children who are

suffering from leukaemia 'Unlawful and

unethical' However, the use of this technology to

provide a "designer baby" to treat an ill sibling is

highly controversial.A UK couple involved in this

1. Verlinsky Y, Rechitsky S, Sharapova T, Morris R, Taranissi M and Kuliev A. Preimplantation HLA Testing. JAMA (2004) 29: 2079

Preimplantation Genetic Screening

General Science: May 13, 2006

A British woman has become the first in the

country to conceive a "designer baby" selected

specifically to avoid an inherited cancer,

The woman, who was not identified, used

controversial genetic screening technology to ensure

she does not pass on to her child the condition

retinoblastoma, an hereditary form of eye cancer

from which she suffers.

Doctors tested embryos created by the woman

and her partner using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)

methods for the cancer gene. Only unaffected

embryos were implanted in her womb, the

newspaper said.

It suggested the woman's pregnancy would

increase controversy over the procedure -- pre-

implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) -- because

critics say it involves destroying otherwise healthy

embryos whose conditions are treatable.

Gregory Stock

Science Vol 315: 1723-25, Mar 2007

Emergence of Novel Color Vision in Mice Engineered

to Express Human Cone Photo-pigment

Changes in the genes encoding sensory recptor proteins are an essential step in

the evolution of new sensory capacities“new sensory capacities" . In primates, tri-

chromatic color vision evolved aftre changes in x chromosome linked photopigment genes.

Heterogous mouse females

human L pigments showed enhanced long-wavelength sensitivity and chromatic

discrimination. An inherent plasticity in the mammalian visual system thus permits emergence

whose retinas contained both mouse pigment andhuman L pigments

Extending Longevity

A strain of mice that have lived . . .

. . . more than three normal lifespans

Should humans live 200 years?

Life extension

Life extension consists of attempts to extend

human life beyond the natural lifespan. So far

none has been proven successful in humans.

Several aging mechanisms are known, and anti-

aging therapies aim to correct one or more of

these:

Dr. Leonard Hayflick discovered that mammalian

cells divide only a fixed number of times. This

"Hayflick limit" was later proven to be caused by

telomeres on the ends of chromosomes that

shorten with each cell-division. When the

telomeres are gone, the DNA can no longer be

copied, and cell division ceases. In 2001,

experimenters at Geron Corp. lengthened the

telomeres of senescent mammalian cells by

introducing telomerase to them. They then

became youthful cells. Sex and some stem cells

regenerate the telomeres by two mechanisms:

Telomerase, and ALT (alternative lengthening of

telomeres). At least one form of progeria (atypical

accelerated aging) is caused by premature

telomeric shortening. In 2001, research showed

that naturally occurring stem cells must

sometimes extend their telomeres, because some

stem cells in middle-aged humans had

anomalously long telomeres.

April 14, 2004

CAN I REPLACE MY

B O D Y ?

If I replace 95%

of my body . . .

. . . Am I still “human”?

Artificial organs

Smart Prostheses

Genetic engineering

Regeneration

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Moral and Ethical Issues

Raised by Technological Success

will take DECADES of debate

Summary of Examples

Should we do research in areas we may not be able to control?

(eg, genetics, cloning, nanobots, intelligent machines?)

Will prolonging life result in more disease in the overall population

Can we change medicine from treatment to prevention of disease

In defeating diseases, will technology change a human into a combination

of man and machine - what does it mean to be “human”

How will we decide who gets the technology, especially in 3rd World

SATAVA 7 July, 1999

DARPA6

For the first time in history,

there walks upon this planet,

a species so powerful,

that it can control its own evolution,

at its own time of choosing …

… homo sapiens.

Who will be the next “created” species?

The Ultimate Ethical Question?

http://depts.washington.edu/biointel

Do Robots Dream ?