Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15. In vivo, in silico: designing the next Medicine
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Author(s): J. D. Westwood et al. (Eds)
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586037130
Format: hardback
528pp
Price: £95.00
Review Date: 06 December 2007
Review: These are the 120 papers from the conference held in February 2007 in Long Beach, California. This year’s conference acknowledged the importance of design within the MMVR community. Design is what links the three environments: in vivo; in vitro and in silico – the biological, the informational and the physical material. In vivo: we design machines to explore the body. Imaging devices, robots and sensors are being made to operate on increasingly smaller scales with increases resolution and sensitivity: system, organ, cell, DNA. In vitro: using test tubes and Petri dishes, we isolate in vivo to allow us to manipulate and measure biological conditions and reactions. In silico: this is where we use virtual reality where algorithms replace chemicals and proteins in a quest for new drugs.