Actually, there's some nanotech completely developed by scientists in the labs. Before any new invention, shouldn't those things become useful as quick as possible to make diagnosis of cancer and other diseases earlier? The selling of already available things will bring more cash back into the research labs without too much competition for a prize.
So there should be another prize; why isn't Mprize enough competition? It seems rather wrong to create more competition instead of reaping the current fruits that Mprize has already offered. For e.g., there's the SENS Foundation Research program as well as mybridge4life.com for people who received a life threatening diagnosis of their medical condition. Only when I hear the word diagnosis it makes me ill, because there's so much to improve in this field of medicine. Yet they are talking about cancer. Yet, cancer isn't always easy to diagnose, for many other illnesses the same.
Here the story of an anonymous person: when I got diagnosed with an illness which made me even more handicapped than before, it took years before the correct diagnosis. When my wife got diagnosed with some slowly progressing illness, it was more than one year too late to make her completely healthy again by surgery. Not only for me and my wife, but also for one and another elderly relative of mine who got diagnosed with some disease, they could have avoided months of pain if the diagnosis came earlier. Millions of others will share the same story with me - more often than not, a diagnosis comes not early enough.
My Bridge 4 Life and financial funding, any ideas? How about some nanotech for the creation of apparatuses for automatized diagnosis? Let's see if Bridge 4 Life will encourage medical doctors using some nanotech in ultra-small machines to apply invisible skin-probes for an automatized diagnosis of illness.
Edited by robomoon, 04 March 2010 - 06:42 PM.