Teach ICT - GCSE: ICT and Medicine

GCSE ICT

Medicine and ICT

Theory

Computers are used a great deal in medical research.

The Pharmaceutical industry uses super computers to model how they think new drugs will work.

This saves the need to use so many animals in testing and can also reduce some of the clinical trials needed.

Universities are mapping out the human genome in an attempt to identify the role of every gene in the body.

Challenge see if you can find out one extra fact on this topic that we haven't already told you

Click on this link: Medical Research