BIOMEDICAL CONVERGENCE FACILITATED BY THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND INFORMATIC CAPABILITIES

We analyzed Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from 21.6 million research articles indexed by PubMed to map this vast space of entities and their relations, providing insights into the origins future biomedical convergence. Detailed analysis MeSH co-occurrence networks identifies three robust knowledge clusters: universe microscopic biological structures; systems, disease diagnostics; emergent social phenomena underlying complex problems driving health, behavioral brain science frontiers. These domains integrated 1990s onward way technological informatic capabilities that introduced highly controllable, scalable permutable processes invaluable imaging techniques for illuminating fundamental structure-function-behavior questions. Article-level confirms a positive relationship between team size topical diversity, shows convergence be increasing in prominence but with recent saturation. Together, our results invite additional policy support cross-disciplinary assembly harness transdisciplinary