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Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

City

London

Keywords

Genetics

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

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Genetics

COVER ART Front: Edward Wei (Meds 2012) In honour of UWOMJ's inaugural genetics issue, I thought it would be interesting to juxtapose the old and the new -- the x-ray and the microarray. Each represents an attempt to peer inside the inner workings of the human machine and divine its mysteries. Of course, while the Roentgenesque head can be easily identified as such, the radiograph gives us little information about the health and function of what lie beneath . The microarray, on the other hand, resembles nothing human at all, yet provides more information than we can really handle all at once. The challenge for medical genetics in the future will be the integration of these multiple modalities -- the shaping and moulding of mountains of data into findings we can see, feel, and hear.

Back: Julie Huang (Meds 2012) Michelangelo's The Creation of Man, found on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel depicts the hand of Adam reaching out to the hand of God. The cover references this iconic work, and brings into question the ways in which science and medicine use genetics as determinants of human creation.

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UWOMJ Volume 78, Issue 3

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