order for it to integrate as if it were part of the living system that is a very significant talons so is it going to be a reality. probably is it going to be hard absolutely. this is a breakthrough the research is have turned the soft silken to a hard piece of substitute bone. but to produce the basic material the research is still depend on the silk help it needs only mulberry leaves to produce its miracle material. that's something the researches have not yet succeeded in copying on an industrial scale. even so they have found a way to turn the silk back into a liquid and they're developing new uses for it. they've discovered that medications mixed with liquid silt can stay fresh for as long as they would in

a refrigerator. that means vaccines could be transported to developing countries without cooling. small this tiny silk pillow doesn't just contain a drug it also replaces the syringe. you form it into a micro needle patch means that you have the delivery mechanism in one single and one single format and then you apply it and hopefully. the fascinating properties of silk make it extremely versatile not just in medical technology it can also be combined with microelectronics and here the possibilities are many. if you really think forward you can eat some sensors and they will communicate and tell you how you are you know tell you something about your food whether your food is good or not whether it's time to sew it away whether you're healthy. and it's not only about silk i think it's going to be about

a general platform based on naturally the right materials you may have a phone that you can plant in your garden when you're done using. a caterpillar secretion has the potential to become the biodegradable high tech material of the future if an artificial version can be made cheaply it could completely replace plastic. oxygen is one of the most important elements in the universe. we need it to breathe and we wouldn't last long without it but how do apnea divers hold their breath so long. wait lists leaving glide down into the darkness without having to. bruv. with just one a single breath of air they dive to depths that cannot otherwise be reached without

technical just. tree divers are a medical phenomena thanks to special breathing techniques of years of training doris hold a month can hold her breath for up to six months. apnea diverse set records that puzzle science how does the body manage to go so long without life giving oxygen. researches at the university clinic and phone want to get to the bottom of the fish people's secret. their abilities make free divers coveted objects for study. during tests the oxygen content in their arms legs and brain as measured. doris

woman is in a position to withstand the body's natural need to breathe for minutes on end. in doing so she overcomes primeval fears and pushes boredom and then. yes a lot of dust is off of the oxygen saturation and the head is maintained for longer than in the arms and legs. for the moment we're on the trail of a compensation mechanism. that. we're trying to discover how people managed to hold their breath for so long without causing brain damage you're just said and. so the human body does happen emergency plan which sustains the brain functions in critical situations for as long as possible.

the international record for free diving stands at eleven minutes depth of more than two hundred meters have been recorded. free divers have the ability to fill every last crevice of their lungs with air and the same time keep their pulse rate down. underwater complex procedures are set off in the human body. and. the scientists from bond want to understand these procedures better. the heart plays a key role it distributes the blood and thus the life giving oxygen around the body . live pictures of the beating heart the insides gained from the study could one day

help an acute patient because lack of oxygen is the biggest problem in the emergency but it's. extreme for music that we can't of course undertake extreme experiments on patients. with three divers we have the opportunity to simulate extreme situations. not allowed us to see how the human body compensates for shortages of oxygen. and it could enable us to provide better medical aid in the future. and then. if. frey divers are a medical miracle and science is hard on the heels of this. for more stories from the world of research and technology head for our website

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