{"id":216990,"date":"2025-07-02T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virtual-reality-software-uncovers-new-details-in-pediatric-heart-tumors"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:14:08","slug":"virtual-reality-software-uncovers-new-details-in-pediatric-heart-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virtual-reality-software-uncovers-new-details-in-pediatric-heart-tumors","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality software uncovers new details in pediatric heart tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsGrh5N3z-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13059-025-03630-6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Genome Biology<\/i><\/a>, found the software, VR-Omics, can identify previously undetected cell activities of cardiac rhabdomyoma, a type of benign heart tumor.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by MCRI\u2019s Professor Mirana Ramialison, VR-Omics is the first tool capable of analyzing and visualizing data in both 2D and 3D virtual reality environments. The innovative technology aims to analyze the spatial genetic makeup of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human tissue<\/a> to better understand a specific disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to a new study. The research, led by Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Genome Biology, found the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}