Music and cancer do not go together, and I mean that in the context of this new technology:
A project at Harvard Medical School created a program to translate the signals from cells into musical notes. Normal signals will sound harmonious, abnormal signals like those coming from cancer cells will sound awful.
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Using date from a pre-existing colon cancer study, bioinformatician Gil Alterovitz and his team created a program that transforms complex genomic information into musical notes, so that abnormal data will sound discordant.
“When things go awry, such as in the case of p53-null mutant …read more

If I were giving career advice to my son (who’s only four-years-old by the way), I would tell him to consider going into informatics. And if I were really pushy, I’d suggest bioinformatics. With computing power increasing exponentially and the internet offering up overwhelming amounts of information, we need people who can figure out a way to organize it all so the rest of us can actually deal with it. One such person is Stew (pseudonym) of Flags and Lollipops and postgenomic. I’m glad he took time out of his busy schedule working at Nature in the web …read more