Environmental Science and Technology Class’ Report

Astri Nur Faizah

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Environmental Science and Technology Class’ Report

Miraikan

Easy-to-Understand Learning about Progresses of Medical Studies

Promoting Medicine Together section is a part giving explanation about astounding progresses of the medical field and medical technology. There are much facilitation, screens, pictures, tutorials which helping us to understand how medical study really is. There is a section how a doctor diagnose a disease. A sample of problem given, then X-ray and CT-scan or other confirmation tests are provided, so we can try to figure out how the flow of diagnosis actually works. Picture below is how a doctor diagnoses a Lung Cancer.

Another part is "New Eyes" to Look into the Body. In this area many recent medical imaging devices are presented. With the advancement of medical imaging devices, the technology to look deep inside the body in detail has dramatically improved. In addition to the improvement of resolution, which can be observed on a cellular level, it has become possible to identify the observation results by various methods and issue an almost immediate diagnosis.

And one of the most interesting parts for me is the Future Item part. There, images and video of future medical scenes that are still unrealized, which might be possible one day through the fusion of knowledge and technology, were showed. One side is for information pertaining to the technological side while the other concerns information on the basic research side. People can feel the direction of medicine of the future. Picture below is the expectation of future drugs which would be based on each people’s DNA. In the future it is expected to heal disease right from DNA variations as the disease would vary among different DNA.

             

There are other interesting parts as well which hypnotized me to not let go of those knowledge. But one thing that I realized is, that those devices help people to easily understand medical studies. Even though the real thing is quite complicated, there were many simplifications for which children can also understand and play with it. It is simplified, yet complex at the same time. I cannot find any better place to learn like this.

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