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This week's lecture and reading gave me a broad perspective on the impact of nanotechnology and taught me how a variety of applications can have a significant effect on people's way of life. Moreover, it was a significant shock to me to learn how traditional scientific principles are not applicable to the nanoscale. As Gimzewski and Vesna have mentioned in their book, understanding the technologies requires a change of perception, since the laws of physics start to change at the nano-level. Richard Feynman explained this idea in detail by showing how the movement of objects with nanoscale units can be used to create new effects. Figure 1 - Nanomedicine(Drug delivery) As a major in electrical engineering, I know a bit about nanotechnology because I learn about semiconductors. The medical device that applied the nanotechnology shown in this week’s lecture has attracted much interest to me. As Gimzewski said the idea of Nanomedicine, the development of nanotechnology has be...

At the second event, I took the lecture called The Postgenomic Condition: Justice, Knowledge, and Life After the Genome at La Kretz Garden Pavilion, room 101, on May 18th. In order to learn more about the event, I first tried to understand the term of “Postgenomic” in the title before listening to the lecture. Richardson noted that postgenomic is used in the broad sense to represent to shifts in the life sciences that are both temporal and technical. In detail, the term specifies any biological studies after the completion of the major genomic projects that employs genomic technologies and draws upon genomic knowledge as well as the contemporary genome. I looked at what was around while I waited for the event to open about 10 minutes. This is because it is a place that I have not visited in UCLA even though I am a UCLA student. The place has a purpose related to the topic of the event by serving as an important resource for a wide range of campus communities and the gener...

Figure 1 - Franz_Josef_Gal Two weeks ago, we are learning about the artistic expression using medical technologies as the artists become interested in scientific knowledge. This week's lecture focuses on the fact that artists are creating new forms of art using the field of neuroscience that came to be known as people became more aware of the human body. Figure 2 - Brainbow Imagine Professor Vesna introduced the person, called Franz Joseph Gall, a renowned phrenologist who decide the individual’s potential through the degree to which the head felt bumps on. Furthermore, he argued that the size of the brain is directly related to intelligence. Even though the old-fashioned theory of phrenology is now widely regarded to be a pseudoscience, the origins of the theory have been very helpful in studying the structure of the brain. As science advances, Brainbow has been invented which helps technically to understand the brain by illuminating nerve cells using different color...

Figure 1 - Kac's GFP bunny Alba For me, this week's topic seemed to teach us more deeply what we learned in the lecture last week. As the scientists developed their knowledge of the biotechnologies, the artists used their knowledge to show the people the new art world. Moreover, this new art inspired scientists to create more and more new biotechnologies as Levy mentions the effect of art, “Art in its broadest sense has been one way to acclimatize the public to new scientific discoveries and new technologies.” For example, Joe Davis's project, called Audio Microscope, allows the people to hear individual cells using cell structure and sound to show how the art can encompass the cellular level mechanisms. His project has played a very important role not only in creating new forms of art that integrate biology, but also in completely changing the focus of the scientists. Figure 2 - Audio Microscope by Joe Davis However, there have been many comments about the use of ...