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Genome Island in Second Life is a real treat if you're a genetics geek or a science geek. If you're not, it's still an amazingly cool place to visit. Max Chatnoir (Dr M. A Clark, Professor of Biology, Texas Wesleyan University) has brought this site to life along with the help of some skilled and able assistants, most notably Elizabeth Gloucester (Professor of Microbial Molecular Genetics at a medica school in New England), and Apaul Balut (Professor of Microbiology at a medical school in the Midwest USA).

Three-dimensional protein sequences hang in the air, among educational displays and trivia games, and giant reproductions of individual cells, with labeled structures in motion and larger than your head.

Gallery: Second Life Genome Island

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CaduceusEven to me, at the moment, that sounds like hyperbole, but there are two recent reports in serious medical media about using Second Life to train medical students, and there are various groups where doctors are trained in Second Life too that we've reported on earlier.

JuniorDr.com talks a bit about what Second Life is, and covers several places where it is being used to provide bioscience and medical training, including Genome Island, Health Info Island, The Ann Myers Medical Centre and the Heart Murmur Sim (Disclosure: Some of the materials covered I have provided to the people running the exhibits). Meanwhile the Student British Medical Journal covers training from Coventry University in some depth and mentions a range of other universities and their activities in the medical field.

Why might it become the biggest medical school in the world? Well, at Second Life Insider we covered at least one story about collaboration in education, and one since we've been Massively too. If the various medical training establishments start collaborating as fully, Second Life could very quickly become a huge resource for medical training and the largest medical school in the world.

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