{"id":25648,"date":"2016-05-13T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T09:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/fighting-developing-world-disease-with-ai-robotics-and-biotech"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:54","slug":"fighting-developing-world-disease-with-ai-robotics-and-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/fighting-developing-world-disease-with-ai-robotics-and-biotech","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Developing World Disease With AI, Robotics, and Biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fighting-developing-world-disease-with-ai-robotics-and-biotech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/crispr-just-got-one-step-closer-to-working-on-human-gen-1772249925\">CRISPR<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/12\/artery-clearing-nanobot\/\"> nanobots<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/doctor-aims-perform-head-transplant-2017-experts-remain\/story?id=33775323\">head transplants<\/a> are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of the toughest age-old diseases still plaguing millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In low income countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs310.pdf\">over 75% of the population dies before the age of 70<\/a> due to infectious diseases including HIV\/AIDS, lung infections, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, malaria, and increasingly, cardiovascular diseases. Over a third of deaths in low income countries are among children under age 14 primarily due <a href=\"http:\/\/data.unicef.org\/child-mortality\/under-five.html\">to pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malaria and neonatal complications<\/a>. In the developed world, those living in extreme poverty, such as homeless populations, also die <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smhc-nm.org\/how-you-can-help\/understanding-homelessness\/\">on average at age 48<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology have all generated a number of new solutions that have the potential to dramatically reduce these problems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/12\/fighting-developing-world-disease-with-ai-robotics-and-biotech\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d6034715e4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-d6034715e4-57450241\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/12\/fighting-developing-wor...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While CRISPR, nanobots and head transplants are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of the toughest age-old diseases still plaguing millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. In low income countries, over 75% of the population dies before the age of 70 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67506,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25648\/revisions\/67506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}