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Medical Technology of the 21st Century

  • Nano medicine

    Nano medicine
    The idea of nano medicine was created by Richard Feynman. He started this idea in 1959 with the famous "Caltech Talk". It all became big in 1999 and began to grow from there.
  • Artificial Heart

    Artificial Heart
    The artificial heart was created by Dr William Johan Kolff. Began research in 1953. His idea became into a creation of a artificial heart.
  • Human Genome Project

    Human Genome Project
    The human genome project was invented by Alfred Strutevant he created the first gene map in 1911 and from there it continued to grow. In 2001 it really launched and became a big part of our medicine.
  • Facial Transplant

    Facial Transplant
    Facial Tranplant is adding parts or a whole face to somone that dosent have those parts on their face because either they wernt born with it or they went through something in their life that caused that.
  • Stem cells

    Stem cells
    Stem cells are artificial cells that can help you rebulid your own cells. It can be helpful with people that are missing cells and need some red blood cells or other to continue to grow.
  • 23 and Me

    23 and Me
    23andMe was invented by Anne Wojcicki. 23andMe is an invention created to find where you and your family’s ancestry originates from by using a sample of your saliva to go through your DNA and chromosomes, hence the name 23andMe​.
    It affects our health because 23andMe can identify if an illness or disease runs through your family such as diabetes or cancer
  • Vaccinations

    Vaccinations
    Vaccinations were created by Edward Jenner. It all began in 1796. In the last 20 or so years they have improved greatly. Since 2008 there have been lots of improvements of the vaccinations especially in shingles vaccinations and many more.
  • Augmented reality in Medicine

    Augmented reality in Medicine
    Was created by Morton Helg and continued by many other people.he created all these inventions in the 50's and 60's. From there it all began growing adding more too technology and medicine.
  • Health Tracking Apps

    Health Tracking Apps
    Health tracking apps were created by Dr.Professor Seppo. He began the idea of a app that can help you live a better life and help you live a safer and healthier life.
  • Bionic Prosthetics

    Bionic Prosthetics
    the idea of Bionic prosthetics were invented by Douglas Bly around the 1860's. It contined to grow and each year more and more body parts are being invented and being used. They are body parts that can be used on people that were not born with those parts.