Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17: The Salon and The Well January 1, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in About me, Blogging, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality.Tags: blog, mmvr, Second Life
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This year, I will attend again the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17 conference that will take place in Long Beach, CA between the 19th and the 22nd of January. Now I’m a member of the organizing committee and have been managing a blog for the conference for a few months.
I will present a slideshow “Practicing medicine in the web 2.0 era” and will also present in the Salon:
Berci Meskó
University of Debrecen, HungaryDemonstration: Discovering the Virtual World of Medicine through Second Life provides medical educators and students with numerous educational opportunities and tools while visiting the places and islands that can change the way medical education is delivered today.
Today Kóan Jeff Baysa asked several of the Well & Salon artists. Check these out here.
MicroRNA and personalized medicine? January 1, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Medical Search, Medicine, Personalized medicine, science.Tags: genetics, miRNA, Personalized medicine, search
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Barbara Duck from The Medical Quack blog shared a link with me yesterday and I was surprised to see how strong the connection is between personalized medicine and the world of microRNAs. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are single-stranded RNA molecules of about 21–23 nucleotides in length, which regulate gene expression; according to Wikipedia.
The link took me to the website of Rosetta Genomics, a company that was founded in Israel in 2000. From the FAQ:
Rosetta Genomics mission is to develop a novel class of diagnostics and therapeutics based on a recently discovered family of genes called microRNAs.
Rosetta Genomics is developing diagnostic and therapeutic products based on micro-ribonucleic acid, commonly known as microRNA, primarily for cancer and women’s health indications.
They provide 3 diagnostic tests:
- miRview Squamous: differentiates squamous from non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer
- miRview mets: dentifies the tissue-of-origin of metastatic tumors.
- miRview meso: differentiates malignant pleural mesothelioma from peripheral adenocarcinomas of the lung or metastatic carcinomas involving the lung pleura.
It will be interesting to see how they move forward with this concept.
And in case you need a miRNA search engine, here is Intragenic miRNA browser:
