Week 4 | Medicine + Technology + Art

Experiencing the heavily STEM-shifting education environment back in my motherland, it is often very common to connect the fields of physics, chemistry and biology with the most cutting-edge technologies, which are basically considered as the very crucial foundations. I still remembered that it is commonly accepted that frontier physics and frontier medicine&biology are the two most important keys that can lead the society to a new era, and I believe in that as well. Therefore, it is quite normal that the ideas of medicine and medical technologies are often connected with sciences we study, instead of art. From this point of view, I have to admit that I seldom see ways that can conncect medical techologies with arts before.


Medicine & Biology & Arts?

After experiencing the integration of different fields of study since high school and at UCLA, as well as after listening to the ideas brought up by Professor Vesna in the lecture that arts sometimes can somehow stimulate the creation and development of arts, I started to rethink about what I saw about the combination of medical technologies and art itself. The Program of simulation of neurons used in neuroscience is a form of binding of medical technologies and arts.



The simulation of neuron acitivities and distributions in human beings' brains is absolutely a fantastic art project that integrate the usage of neuroscience, biology, computer science, mathematical modeling, arts from my point of view. It is the idea of creativity and their senses of arts of the programmer, as well as the proficiency of knowledges in the corresponding sciences fields, help them build up such marvelous project and technology.


Brain Neurons Mathematical Model 3D

Multiple-Layers Neuron Simulation


The perfect combination of arts, medical sciences, and neurotechnologies lead to the founding of such magnificant program. Through the stimulation of arts, there can be ways which programmers can visualize all the data collected, all the theories proposed, and all the predicting model brough up by scientists and experimenters. The presentation and illustration of neurons, activitis and distributions in brains can definitely be a examples of the binding of all these fields and provide insight for future development in these areas.


Microscope & Cells & Subparts

Another medical technology worthy to mention is the microscope, which can help us to further discover = the smallest unit of cells. Can these smallest units be separated even further? All these artistic presentation of cells under the microscope can also be a good illustration of bonds between arts, medicine and technology!


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Referrences:

Vesna, Victoria. “Human Body & Medical Technologies pt1-4”Week-4 Lectures

Nature, Automated Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscopy Images for 3D Cell Detection in human-derived Cardiospheres

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43137-2

DigiCortex - Biological Neural Network Simulator

    http://www.dimkovic.com/node/1

Artificial Brain Simulation - Thalamocortical System, 8 Million Neurons - 1.4 Billion Synapses

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u28ijlP6L6M

Kmogenart, What is Medical Art?

    https://www.kmogenart.com/post/what-is-medical-art

New light microscope creates 3D movies inside living cells

    https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-light-microscope-creates-3d-movies-inside-living-cells/7891.article

Neuroscience at the Allen Institute, Scientists recreated part of the mouse brain on a computer — and showed it movies

    https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/news-press/articles/scientists-recreated-part-mouse-brain-computer-and-showed-it-movies

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  1. Anna Teffeteller2022年4月23日 09:00

    I enjoyed reading your blog post! I never thought of the microscope something so simple! I really loved how informative your blog is though, i'm not a medical student and I learned so much about medicine in your blog post. Medical scans and tools have influenced art in so many ways and its nice to learn the more medical side of things! Great Post!

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