When Korea’s go master Le Sedol suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, the Korean society fell into a massive panic. The media talked about “jobs to disappear because of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” daily, and voices began to pour out stressing the need to prepare for the age of AI. The phrase “AlphaGo shock” was no exaggeration at all.The medical field was no e
With ‘precision medicine’ getting popular, the importance to study human biological materials and genome is getting significant. But some argue that human biological materials in a biobank aren’t effectively used. Especially they point out it is urgent to standardize data on human biological materials and revise laws and systems to make the biobank do its role.The biobank is the organization t
Fear of schizophrenia engulfed Korean society last May when a man diagnosed with the disease stabbed a random woman to death in a public restroom in Gangnam. A slew of negative opinions about schizophrenia and negative media coverage followed soon after. Schizophrenics became synonymous with murderers and ‘scary people’.But are they, in fact, scary? Have we tried to understand their situation?