Friday, April 16, 2010

A giant step for medicine

One day future medical laboratory technologists will thank Barak Obama for setting in motion a manned space mission to Mars.
Why?
Because the last time man stepped on another celestial body (the moon), the payoffs for laboratory medicine were many. By pushing for the miniaturization of electrical components such as transistors, medical laboratory science was able to transfer the technolgy to developing analzyers that were becoming more and more sophisticated. The technology has also helped develop CAT and MRI scans as well.
Without doubt, there will be challenges. But the knowledge gained from overcoming these obstacles will have long term positive outcomes for medicine. Who knows what new technolgies and advancement will be developed (don't be surprised to see fantastic developments in nanotechnolgy).
Maybe they will even develop that holy grail of science fiction, the tricorder.