As mentioned in Part One, AIMed North America 2018 created a platform for many up and coming young talents in the industry. Tom Murickan is one of them. The present high school junior appeared on stage with his father on the last day of AIMed North America 2018. He spoke together with a panel of exp
The effort to include young enthusiasts into the artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine industry was marked clear in the recent AIMed North America 2018, took place between 13 and 15 December in Dana Point, California. Four high school students aged between 15 and 17 emerged to be one of the top a
Virtual Reality (VR) was born in game but it grew in many areas well beyond mere entertainment. On 12 December, workshop day of this year’s AIMed North America, Fran Ayalasomyajula from Global Healthcare Solutions of HP and Howard Rose, CEO of Firsthand Technology brought together an informative ses
The proposal of using blockchain technology as a mean to prevent medical plagiarism started off with an irony. Back in 2014, when Benjamin Gregory Carlisle, a PhD student from McGill University posted the idea of treating medical research protocol like bitcoin on his blog “The Grey Literature”, he w
It’s becoming more common for parents of children with genetic and other forms of tricky disorders to start support groups on social media. These parents not only shared their experiences in helping children to overcome daily challenges brought about by their conditions. They also spread latest rese
2018 is probably the year of immunology. Last month, two immunologists – James Allison and Tasuku Honjo were awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries of checkpoint inhibitors which revolutionize immunotherapy. In August, a group of researchers from France had successfully
Professor Petra Schwille from Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, is probably the Gordon Ramsay of biophysics. Like the chef who can turn filet mignon, mushroom and flour into beef wellington; Professor Schwille is skilful at making synthetic cell out of protein, buffering agents, fat m
This October, China’s ministry of science and technology released a list of five companies and a research hospital in China which had violated the 1998 human genetic resources regulation. It’s an obligation for any study involving biological or genetic samples of Chinese citizens to obtain permissio
Some time ago, pictures of 20 Korean beauty pageant contestants went viral. These photos found attention on the internet not because they portrayed females with exceptional grace but because of how similar all of them looked. Even though beauty lies in the eye of beholder, our definition of what con