A recent statistics released by Allaboutcareers.com, a leading careers exploration website, reveal that 44% of undergraduates are unable to define the industry that they would like to work in once they graduate. These are worrying statistics that emphasise the need for high quality, free and easy to access careers information for young people that will increase undergraduate awareness with different careers that can be pursued as a physiologist.In this paper, I show how artificial intelligence (A.I), bioprinting and nanotechnology can create employment opportunities for future physiologist by bridging wide gap of knowledge in research, teaching and clinics.The role of physiologist in the advancement of A.I in medicine is critically indispensable. For common diseases, physiological genomic readouts in disease-applicable tissues may be an effective surrogate to measure the effect of genetic and environmental factors and their interactions that underlie disease development and progression. As AI continues to advance, new analytical approaches, including those that go beyond data correlation, are under development. Physiological genomic readouts in disease-relevant tissues, combined with advanced AI, can be a powerful approach for precision medicine for common diseases. Also, deep learning process of A.I analyzes unstructured physiological/medical data ( ECG, blood tests, EKGs, genomics, patient medical history) to give doctors better insight into a patient’s real-time needs. Moreover, how quick diagnoses can prospectively reach throughout recovering the analysis measures on electrophysiological (EP) or electronic medical record (EMR), imaging and genetic which is a major power of the artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are explained. In another vein, Nanotechnology is another exciting new area in science, with many possible applications in medicine and physiological research. The application of nanotechnology to biosensor design and fabrication promises to revolutionize therapy at the molecular and cellular level. A great example of this is a group of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute who are using antibodies attached to carbon nanotubes in chips to detect cancer cells in the blood stream. The researchers believe this method could be used in simple lab tests that could provide early detection of cancer cells in the bloodstream. Also, applications of nano particles in drug delivery, protein and peptide delivery, cancer are explained. Also, another technology in which physiologist could use to enhance their work and researches is bioprinting. Bioprinting is an emerging technology for constructing and fabricating artificial tissue and organ constructs. This technology surpasses the traditional scaffold fabrication approach in tissue engineering(TE). Currently, there is a plethora of research being done on bioprinting technology and its potential as a future source for implants and full organ transplantation. Recreating tissues and organs requires the recreation of structures and functions within the tissue, including signaling networks, cellular interactions, multiple cell types, and physiological activity; this can be done by physiologist with their understanding of composition of structures and their mechanisms of action. This paper shows how physiologist can apply this exciting technology in their research which will largely help in the field of medicine.
Future Physiology 2020 (Virutal) (2020) Proc Physiol Soc 46, OC11
Oral Communications: Artificial intelligence, Bioprinting and Nanotechnology: The role of future Physiologist.
Abdulrahman Olagunju1
1 The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria
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