DARPA longs for magnetic body healers, crazy respawn camps
By Darren Murph 
posted February 24th 2010 4:22AM
posted February 24th 2010 4:22AM
Even DARPA understands that its futuristic bubble shield can be penetrated given the right circumstances, and when it does, the soldier behind it is going to need some serious healing. In a hurry. In the entity's newest budget, there's $6.5 million tucked away "for the creation of a scaffold-free tissue engineering platform, which would allow the construction of large, complex tissues in vitro and in vivo." As you well know, this type of mad science has been around for quite some time, and now it looks as if DARPA is ready for the next best thing: "non-contact forces." Put simply, this alludes to replacing scaffolds with magnetic fields or dielectrophoresis, which could purportedly "control cell placement in a desired pattern for a sufficient period of time to allow the cells to synthesize their own scaffold." It's still too early to say how close we are to being able to instantaneously heal soldiers on the battlefield, but frankly, the public is apt to never know for sure.
How about making a force shield for a bubble shield?
@KGB We already have Chuck Norris for that.
DARMA initiative? am i the only one who thought that? lost was on tonight....
Everybody knows you need potions to heal, duh. :P
But will it cure hangovers?
So no future remakes of MASH then?
(shakes fist)
We will be dead before this tech is viable. Maybe our grandkids will get to see it.
And please, no "DARPA can do ANYTHING" posts. DARPA is a funding organization. All R&D is outsourced to contractors like my company.
Medi-gel and an omni-tool.
Gotta love DARPA!
Splicers!
I knew one day my bioshock dreams would come true!
can you dumb it down a bit.
@dwight
Ow. Leg hurt. Magic make better.
@dwight
Invisible rays fix booboos & ouchies... JK
Invisible rays that stimulate spontaneous and instantaneous tissue regeneration. Think Star Trek TNG when they would hear cuts, bruises, and broken bones with a pass of the doctors gadget wand. You get the same concept here. Only they may very well be looking to have this process internalized within the human body so it would then be "self-healing" tissue regeneration.
@dwight Scientists inject cells into an injured area. The cells are held in place by magnetic fields so when they start healing they are in the right shape to work correctly and connect.
Sweet SHAMONY! An army of Logans (Wolverines)! Yikes!
Good thing they will be on "our side" ;^/. Sayin...
if DARPA is behind it, it must be real.
Hrmm I'd love to believe this is a reality but this is the same DARPA that funded a huge project to bring basically mech suits to our troops. Somewhere along the line I'm guessing wires got crossed because all that came out of it was a half working ultra expensive APC with 6 legs that looked like a cockroach.
I cannot wait for our new borg regeneration booths!