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Technological Advancements in Medicine | Navya Sharma | TEDxMonroeTownshipHighSchool

everyone and I'd like to thank you all for attending mths is first and you attend top so I'm going to be opening up the discussion tonight trying to get this thing to work I'm going to be opening up today's discussion discussing something that intrigues me on Julie disco for saving lives advances in medicine okay so I'd like to think that you think by asking you all a few questions how many of you have seen Imogen on the top left how many of you have seen the image on the top right again quite a few how many of you have seen that the bottom image so these images depict technologies that are currently in development so the first image on the top left corner depicts a language that is capable of simulating the environment of an actual living organ kind of like an organ on the chip and it can serve as an alternative to animal and human testing the image on the right depicts these series of synthetic hormones synthetic hormones can be used to treat the variety of diseases what type of synthetic hormone can actually be increase the chances of surviving with cheap Heartfilia rice which is thirty seven or seven now the bottle is that probably intrigues me captivates me the most alcohol but an image to fix the device if you convert data from CT and MRI scans into actual 3d holographic images of human organs that scientists can interact with so I think part of what in what I've invoked my interest in the medical field was my own family's history of medical conditions my family has a history of medical conditions and diseases so for instance back when I was in elementary school I remember I was in fifth grade I found out that my little tiny heart surgery cardiovascular surgery and so my family and I had rushed to the hospital and their doctors informed us that my grandfather would need a device club pacemaker owns her and so I was there running seven listening to the doctor as he described how this piece people were working I did comprehend but I do recall him describing that it would be a battery-operated device that could keep his heart beating prolong his existence essentially by administering electrical impulses and it was absolutely I was absolutely captivated by this idea that his he could continue living and carrying out his daily activities just try this device that's operated by a battery on his heart another thing was that in North America 2012 that was probably the worst of my life because my uncle had a massive stroke I remember it was in a relatively humid days were abnormally cold monthly easy in Twitter my aunt stayed over for sleep over that night and we were talking you know sharing jokes and shared stories and stuff and then we all graduate research she started to fall asleep then maybe around 2:30 or 1:00 in the morning she received a phone call and at the other end was when he was speaking he was incoherently mumbling like he was trying to - so I was clearly very spirited she rushed out what a morning to go back home and see what was happening when she got home there was neatly there and he informed her that my uncle was unconscious and so the next day my family and I are rushing to the hospital because my Auckland hairpiece suffered a stroke and I read when we got there my sister's reaction was that she immediately she saw that there was kind of a dent in the side grandpa's head weird dolls wasn't operated and she was cheering him on but she basically just turned and bolted but for me I of course I was most struck by grief and terror but it invoked curiosity within me and I stayed there and listed again as surgeons basically described the procedure that they had carried out on my cocoa and I remember thinking you know I was so fascinated by this disease essentially in the sense that like the fact that this disease could take away my ability to you know he had to learn how to say his house Benton Counties numbers and he couldn't talk or walk could not matter we still camp it to this day the fact that he had gone from you know successful CEO to somebody who couldn't even recite his that really intrigued my curiosity in the medical field and so that's basically predominantly what caused me to be so fascinated with advancements in the medical field and took medical technology now from time to time I find myself thinking about how remarkable that is that we've come so far since the reign of our early ancestors back when something as serious not to us as a cold could lead to pneumonia which has minimal treatments at the time which could in turn lead to the untimely demise of the person Patti prior to the eighteen hundred's common in water analysis such as sinus infections and indigestion we're treated many herbs such as the ones that you see on the screen ginger chamomile basil marigold now the first stoppers is medicine men and they actually uh trace back medical conditions and illnesses - maybe the acts of a devil a sin that that person had committed misfortune or even supernatural activity now they used interesting processes to attempt to collect their patients of the evil than a new task for them so on the left you know we see a hole drilled into a skull the process of traveling and traveling this process of drilling a 2 point 5 2 5 centimeter hole in the skulls of patients down language on the right depicts up another process known as bloodletting and but bloodletting was was that if involved cutting open the tissue skin and letting your blood spilt into a wasted there just envision your regular check-ups you go to the doctors they check here here is your throat and other things and then you're out basically right now ambition haven't just sit in a chair well somebody physically cut open your skin and takes your blood out but it was absolutely enormous but luckily company 18th century a time period is the night whenever they hug you you know like - okay so those of you who don't know the Enlightenment was basically a period of time in which practicality and reasoning rose above theology people began to seek answers to unexplained phenomena rather than turning to the church for all their answers the indictment was preceded by a time period known as the Scientific Revolution depicted in the picture on the right and it was a contributing factor the indictment and additionally during the Enlightenment interest in public health and medicine sciences increases significantly hospitals begin to appear scientists begin to experiment with actual medications rather than resorting to fake feelings for everything and on top that secular medicine emerged [Music] ok so fast run again to the 20th century now during the 20th century is for sure we're all aware two major global catastrophes occur world wars one and G now world wars and yes they devastated millions of lives and cost millions of casualties but they did lead to major medical breakthroughs now the image that you see on the left is an image of a soldier who underwent a facial reconstruction surgery you see doctors improved facial reconstruction surgery because soldiers are suffering artillery fragments directly to the face now the image that you see on the top right and unless depicting kinds of aesthetics and how that we use you see before our interceptors emerge doctors have to chop off entire limbs of patients but antiseptics emerged and served as an alternative tonight and that the fourth image you see of the mana regen is of balance Avery Fleming who in 1928 discovered a bacteria enormous kinocilium which then led to the manufacturing of the first antibiotic substance medicine which we still use today now as we get to the 21st century you know heart surgery me personally I enjoy reading these articles home think they're these I really like to keep up with carnufex they treat me very much not the political ones more so the ones that are revolved around politics so recently I got about a few mentioned a few medical breakthroughs that have recently occurred and one of them is in most facial transplant the image that you see on the top left is not the young woman need to take a stubble clipton now katie stone village was facing much of emotional distress in her life and unfortunately she decided to take her life at her brother's home she attempted to inflict gunshot wound and thus you know commit suicide but she was unsuccessful now she became the youngest recipient of a nearly intact nearly full facial surgery official transplant surgery and as you can see she received a nearly full face from another woman who then passed away from an alcohol addiction and she claimed that he gave her a second chance at life now the image on the top right is of Jason closure Jason kosher was Jason kosher enjoyed riding his ATV on his family farm it was an activity community today but then one day he struck a power line and that led to him being in a coma for nearly three days and when he woke up he found out the doctors had indicated both his arms and didn't replace with Bionic arms that the doctors had and I've had a pork and then I can ask to be used to adjust the grip cities on these mitotic marks so you could pinch you could pull the English shake hands carry out deal and make basic day-to-day activities and as you can see on Jason's arms are images of his two daughters the reason for that is doctors asked him you know you have one thing that will put it neatly and he said I want to be able to hold my nose but so they also programmed enough to display images of the surface concerns I know touching and the third communities of targeted cell therapy now Tarasova therapies companies companies keep you therapy radiation from these therapies target both healthy cells and tumor cells which leads to disastrous side effects in cancer patients such as hair loss and severe nausea so terminated cell therapies cancer cell therapy state tournament solely the tumor cells and not the healthy cells can thus produce side effects greatly so I basically discussed the past how you know who are only advanced the medical field test becomes since our ancestors didn't have discussed the present current from Kirk remedies that are emerging but what about the future which is the future of Medicine hope so the image that you see on the top right is an image of the igniting device McHenry paralyzed muscles so excuse me muscle cells so scientists are basically experimenting with robot robotic access coaching values capable of reading people's minds in addition to enable it that to get where they meet you so the of a smoke happened robotic exoskeleton this photo basically collects information and it transmits it in the form of electrical signals to the devices motion which can then enable the person who's paralyzed to get the need to go so imagine a person with paralysis magic glass of water for them they don't even need to think they can simply move towards that glass of water and graphic and tickets development you know as the awareness they didn't have paralysis and the image at one point is one that perhaps most of you will recognize how many of you recognize this where are we are three spirits functions in some way the Chris granted gene editing tool it is a gene editing tool that involves a massage from an me partly molecule and a enzyme atcase night so but how to set the synthesized RNA molecule guys this case night enzyme to the location on the DNA where it wants to edit the gene and reason in a second time makes incisions at that part of the DNA molecule which then in turn pushes the genes and DNA dairy attacks come in and prepared the decisions now remarkable thing about CRISPR is amazing amazing applications for instance CRISPR can be used to make diseases can be used to altered genes to mimic diseases which we can't obviously do in humans since you know our genes in humans would have a detrimental effect and likely result in death in another application of Chris Kurt is that a kid you search through the genes that are crucial to survival diseases so I'd like to end off on a quote by sorry great power comes great responsibility and what this means is that with the power of inventing new technologies technologies we have to achieve in mind that we are only human and that you know death is inevitable everybody passes away and no device but we can change them and if we learn to harness this power these mental achievements will continue and so the topic of today's special is changed right it's changing how in my discussions simply how the medical field has changed and improved all the time we must remember that we have to harness or cover and in addition current remedies that we all look alive today may become a thing of the past were advanced and developing something much much more thank you [Applause] [Applause]