Respecting our medical history, dreaming our future

Author: 
Raghavendra Rao M V, Anantha Lakshmi G, Karindas M.M, ille Vasiliev, Khizer Hussain Junaidy, Swarna Deepak Kuragayala, Sekhar Sameer M, Mubashir Ali, Sree Divya manuru and Srilatha B

From the nineteenth-century basics science microbiologists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch to the sequencing of the human genome, gene therapy, robotics, sensors, gene editing and bionics, the past 200 years have seen medicine advance at an extraordinary pace. There are about 30,000 diseases known to human beings and of those most of them have no treatment. Hundreds of thousands of people are alive today because of life saving, life altering and life sustaining treatments that have emerged from the continuous research. Advanced research in (bio) medicine and technological innovations make it possible to combine high-dimensional, heterogeneous health data to better understand causes of diseases and make them usable for predictive, preventive, and precision medicine. Healthcare changes dramatically because of technological developments, from anaesthetics and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. By 2050, expert surgeons will use robots to operate on patients. Infants will have their DNA sequenced before they are born. Patients will be able to generate new blood inside their own bodies without the need for a blood donor. The human factor of the doctor at the patient's bedside equals modern computerized medical equipment. Breakthroughs in gene, advances genomics and genetics, new research of DNA and RNA, the frontier research of life sciences, new biotherapy discovery, emerging areas for medicine applications, robust technology development, and cutting-edge Biotechnology, etc. will come in use in future.

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352-358
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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ 23956429.ijcmpr20230100
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