{"id":687593,"date":"2010-03-10T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:00:06","slug":"the-sounds-of-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687593","title":{"rendered":"The sounds of disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5432\" title=\"music vortex\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stockphotopro_48295424CFK_no_title-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"music vortex\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>An amazing new software program developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/bcl.med.harvard.edu\/people\/gil\/\">Gil Alterovitz, PhD<\/a>, a research fellow in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chip.org\/\">Children&#8217;s Hospital Informatics Program<\/a>, that turns gene and protein expression data into music, could help doctors <em>hear<\/em> whether their patients\u2019 health has taken a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/2010\/03\/04\/surgical-symphony\">WBUR recently did a story<\/a> on the new software. \u201cWe felt that music, in some sense, can serve as a translator,\u201d Alterovitz said in the piece. \u201cThere\u2019s more and more information presented, so\u2026we need a way to present it to the brain\u2026in a way that it can handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We recently did a story on Alterovitz\u2019s work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/vector\/vector_fall08\/sounding_out_disease.html\"><em>Vector<\/em><\/a>, our research magazine, and <em>Technology Review<\/em> did a cool audio\/video presentation that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/video\/index.aspx?id=21094&amp;brightcove=1672070565&amp;iframe=biotech&amp;autoplay=true\">compared the sounds of sickness to the sounds of 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