![]() Medical professionals need to think big, act small, dare to fail, stop talking… and start acting NOW. The impact of new communication paradigms, such as social media and transparency of performance, is just as underrated as is the role of e-health overrated. Moreover, there are two developments awaiting at the gate to disrupt many of the current care models: the assertive patient is here to stay, and new technologies are developing at exponential rates. Financial mismatches, doubling of healthcare demand, and the shortage of skilled personnel (the Netherlands will lack 400,000 professionals by 2040) will drive healthcare systems to reinvent themselves. The challenges that healthcare faces are huge that is no breaking news. Real people with real compassion giving great care. But, in my opinion, we will still need medical professionals. So what about healthcare? What will vanish in the field of medicine? Will technology and the Internet take over like they did in the music and travel industries? Will nurses be replaced by robots? Will the doctor be replaced by a smartphone app? Will we no longer go to a hospital or to the doctor’s office? A shift is surely occurring, and some things in healthcare have already began their march on the way of the dodo. Many futurists have already predicted that things like post offices, taxi drivers, manual labor, and even death itself will go the way of the dodo. In this era of Internet and technology, this goes not only for flora and fauna, but also for stuff we use or things we do. To “go the way of the dodo” means that something is destined to go out of existence. Of all the species that became extinct, the dodo has become a kind of metaphor for extinction. ![]() These developments make me think about the dodo, the notorious one-meter-tall, pigeon-like, flightless bird, last spotted by a Dutch mariner in 1662 near Mauritius. Think of all the things that became obsolete due to the Internet, such as letter writing, privacy, and all kinds of brokers and middlemen. The Internet has added a lot to our lives indeed, and has also made a few things disappear. "We'll be building new tools to enable more complex editing protocols which will advance the state of the art when compared to what is available in the healthcare industry," he said.“The Internet has revolutionized our lives!” is an often heard exclamation. Gene editing technology such as CRISPR is already being used to correct genetic mutations found in diseases. Gene editing and biotech advances used for de-extinction "will inevitably have utility in the human healthcare field," Lamm said. What other benefits might Colossal's research yield? Colossal also announced $150 million in investments, boosting to $225 million its funding since the company's September 2021 debut. "These embryos will be implanted into healthy female elephant surrogates with our first calves expected in 5 years," accounting for the 22-month gestation period, Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal, told USA TODAY.Ī similar process is being used with the Tasmanian tiger's genome and similar mammal DNA to bring back that predator – exterminated in the early 20th century – to the island off the southeast tip of Australia.Ĭolossal is creating an Avian Genomics Group to bring back the dodo and, eventually, other extinct bird species "through genetic rescue techniques and its de-extinction toolkit," the company said in its announcement. "I particularly look forward to furthering genetic rescue tools focused on birds and avian conservation.” How are scientists trying to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth?Ĭolossal's biotech and genetic engineering teams are combining woolly mammoth and elephant DNA to recreate a next-generation mammoth capable of surviving in the Arctic and helping restore that ecosystem. "I am thrilled to collaborate with Colossal and the people of Mauritius on the de-extinction and eventual re-wilding of the dodo," she said. Shapiro, a professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, led a group that announced in March 2022 it had sequenced the dodo genome. “The dodo is a prime example of a species that became extinct because we – people – made it impossible for them to survive in their native habitat," said Beth Shapiro, lead paleogeneticist and a member of Colossal's scientific advisory board, in the announcement. Pigs and other animals brought to the island ate dodo eggs. The birds, which were larger than turkeys, were killed for food, the site says. Portuguese sailors discovered the dodo on the island of Mauritius, which is off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, more than five centuries ago. The last dodo was killed in 1681, according to.
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