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The shady business of funeral homes selling body parts has come to light recently. Turns out our body parts are worth more financially than most people realized. Will people negotiate the sale of their own body parts before they die and reap some of financial benefits?
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| Yes (26) |  53% | | No (23) |  47% |
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Bionic limb replacements that look and work exactly like the real thing will likely remain a Hollywood fantasy, but fast advances in human-to-machine communication and miniaturization could bring the technology close within a decade.
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| Yes (39) | 93% | | No (3) | 7% |
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After reading Richard Preston's excellent book "Demon in the Freezer", I'm convinced that a weaponized version of smallpox could be created and used. Vaccines that we have now might not effect the strain created and would be in short supply. Do you think we will see a smallpox attack in the next ten years?
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| Yes (15) | 56% | | No (12) | 44% |
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Personalized medicine is the use of detailed information about a patient's genes in order to select a medication or therapy this is suited to them. The best-known example is Genentech's Herceptin, a breast-cancer drug. Before prescribing the drug, a doctor tests the tumor to see whether it has high levels of the protein Her2.
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| Yes (82) | 91% | | No (8) | 9% |
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A device that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.
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| Yes (40) | 74% | | No (14) | 26% |
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Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in particular. Gene therapy typically aims to supplement a defective mutant allele with a functional one.
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| Yes (13) | 87% | | No (2) | 13% |
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A vaccine is a treatment that teaches our immune system how to protect itself against a disease-causing germ like a virus or bacteria. Vaccines are one of the world’s most effective tools for preventing diseases. Polio, smallpox, measles, and mumps have been nearly eliminated from many countries because of vaccines. Ideally, an AIDS vaccine would prevent people from being infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).
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| Yes (24) | 67% | | No (12) | 33% |
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