Taken from Peopl's Daily, China
In 2024, China has achieved yet another series of major breakthroughs in medical science. Let’s look back at some of these most incredible scientific feats! #ThrivingChina
3D-printed SMALLEST micro blood vessel
A China-led international team developed an innovative bioprinting tech — PRINting Cell Embedded Sacrificial Strategy (PRINCESS) — successfully creating a 70-μm endothelialized blood vessel, the tiniest-ever microvasculature, using degradable DNA biolubricant. The tech gives new opportunities for engineering thick tissues, offering the potential to end animal testing.
Pioneer of FIRST treatment for autoimmune disease in ‘Nature’s 10’ list
Xu Huji, a doctor, has been listed by @Nature among the "Ten people who helped shape science in 2024". He led a team of medical professionals in delivering the world's first treatment for autoimmune disease using bioengineered donor-derived CAR-T cells. The treatment's success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR-T therapies.
LONGEST-distance remote human surgery
A China-made medical robot has successfully assisted in the longest-distance remote human surgery recently as a surgeon in Shanghai performed a remote prostate cancer surgery for a patient 12,000 km away in Morocco. A doctor took less than two hours to complete the surgery, with a one-way latency of just over 100 milliseconds.
FIRST to cure end-stage type-2 diabetes
For the first time in the world, Chinese doctors successfully treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient had been insulin-independent for 33 months as of May 2024.
Author: Saikat Bhattacharya
