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Mahidol University to follow VR for aesculapian training

The Royal Mahidol University successful Thailand has tied up with Japanese VR institution Jolly Good to commencement a virtual world programme for grooming students connected ​​infectious illness treatment.

Based connected a property statement, Jolly Good volition supply the assemblage with VR instrumentality and facilities that alteration the self-production of VR-based teaching materials. 

These volition beryllium introduced successful 4 acquisition departments: Mahidol University's Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital's School of Nursing and Faculty of Medicine, and the Educational Simulation Center astatine Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute.

An archetypal objection of the VR acquisition materials volition verify its effectiveness earlier it tin beryllium expanded to determination hospitals successful Thailand.

Jolly Good noted that galore doctors successful Thailand are not receiving capable grooming oregon acquisition connected infectious diseases aft they graduate. 

"After the COVID-19 pandemic successful Thailand, we faced difficulties teaching infectious diseases to students and aesculapian staff. We person been seeking caller technologies to supply high-quality aesculapian education, and now, Thailand educators are much acrophobic astir VR," emphasised Dr Aongart Mahittikorn, subordinate prof successful the Faculty of Tropical Medicine astatine Mahidol University.

The objection task is besides supported by Juntendo University's IT-based Human Resource Development Project for Infectious Diseases and Community Medicine successful Thailand and Southeast Asia.

Indira IVF to rotation retired Presagen's AI for identifying viable embryos 

Indira IVF is rolling retired Presagen's AI exertion for identifying viable embryos crossed its much than 100 clinics successful India.

Life Whisperer is an AI-based instrumentality that analyses images of diligent embryos and supports the enactment of an embryo astir apt to pb to a pregnancy.

"We are delighted to beryllium capable to see this caller exertion for each our patients arsenic portion of their IVF rhythm astatine nary further cost. This volition guarantee couples tin person the champion IVF attraction possible, and the top accidental of starting a caller household sooner," said Srinivas Madabusi, Indira IVF main of International Business and New Initiatives.  

Genomics Thailand augments sequencing capacity

Genomics Thailand has received 2 precocious throughput sequencers from Shenzhen-based MGI Tech Co. to augment its capableness to series the genomes of 50,000 Thai radical and make caller biologic insights into analyzable diseases similar cancer.

The MGI DNBSEQ-T7RS sequencer is simply a four-chip sequencing level that tin make 6 terabytes of information per time and implicit up to 60 full quality genomes daily. The sequencing and automation level was besides precocious selected by the Indonesian Ministry of Health to enactment its National Genome Project.

The five-year Genomics Thailand inaugural seeks to found a broad aesculapian database of the section Thai colonisation to assistance researchers amended recognize their unsocial genomic complexity. The database volition besides service arsenic the instauration for the improvement of personalised diagnostics, cause selection, and attraction successful the fields of cancer, infectious diseases, uncommon and undiagnosed diseases, non-communicable diseases and pharmacogenomic diseases.