Question: I know a load of wounded soldiers some blind some deaf some with no limbs etc.. Do you think that there will be bionic limbs and eyes and eardrums and stuff like that because it must be hell not being able to see or use a hand or something, if they can make them how long into the future do you think they would be made in

Hannah Brotherton answered on 27 Jun 2013:

Hi cosmo,
DEFINATELY!! we already have bionic legs and arms (prosthetic limbs) and even today in the hearing world of science – we put in what are known as cochlear implants, which are just electrical magnets which are placed inside the ear. We use these if the person’s eardrum doesn’t work.
But one day we could definitely make a bionic eardrum…..but right npw science is able to grow new parts of our body like ears or fingers – real body parts 😀

So we might have even skipped using bionic limbs or organs to replace the ones we lost, and we might just be growing new ones.

How do we do this?
Doctors can take a special cell from your body called a stemcell….this cell can turn into another cell such as a heart cell or an eyes cell. So if you are able to give it the right environment to grow and the right hormones, you can control what it grows into. Doctors have already grown an ear on someones arm to replace the one she lost from cancer, and Doctors have grown a kidney.

So if they keep going at this speed, we will be able to grow new body parts in the ext 10 years

😀

So no terminator type of people in the future, just people who can grow new parts of their body 😛

BTW it is terrible losing a limb or an eyes, because your brain still thinks you have it. So when a person loses their arm, they will still try and pick up things, because they can feel their hand still there – this is called phantom limb syndrome, and it take s a while for a person to realize they have lost their arm…and this can be quiet upsetting 🙁