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Virtual You

How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
By Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney
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Virtual You by Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney explores the intriguing world of digital replicas of humans, known as digital twins. It delves into how these lifelike simulations can revolutionise fields like medicine, allowing for precise personalisation of treatments and understanding of diseases. The book provides a fascinating look at the intersection of technology and biology, highlighting the potential to dramatically enhance our approach to health and science.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by the potential of digital simulations to transform medicine, offering insights into how personal avatars could revolutionise healthcare. Readers fascinated by the intersection of technology, biology, and the future possibilities for personalised treatments will find it exciting.

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Virtual You

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The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future

Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a new era of personalised medicine, one in which your digital twin can help predict your risk of disease, participate in virtual drug trials, shed light on the diet and lifestyle changes that are best for you, and help identify therapies to enhance your well-being and extend your lifespan - but thorny challenges remain.

In this deeply illuminating book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield reveal what it will take to build a virtual, functional copy of a person in five steps. Along the way, they take you on a fantastic voyage through the complexity of the human body, describing the latest scientific and technological advances - from multiscale modelling to extraordinary new forms of computing - that will make ‘virtual you’ a reality, while also considering the ethical questions inherent to realising truly predictive medicine.

With an incisive foreword by Nobel Prize winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan, Virtual You is science at its most astounding, showing how our virtual twins and even whole populations of virtual humans promise to transform our health and our lives in the coming decades.

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Virtual You by Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney is praised as an insightful exploration into the development of digital human "twins" in medicine, offering a comprehensive look at how advances in computing are revolutionising biology and healthcare. Critics appreciate its clarity in explaining complex concepts and note its broad scope, covering topics from historical medical advances to future ethical considerations. The book is described as thought-provoking and ambitious, with engaging examples of personalised medicine's potential impact.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691223278

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 15 color + 54 b/w illus.

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Venki Ramakrishnan

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 336

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Peter Coveney Roger Highfield Science & Nature

About the Author

Peter Coveney is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London, professor at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, and adjunct professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Roger Highfield is science director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and visiting professor at University College London and the Dunn School, University of Oxford. They are the authors of Frontiers of Complexity and The Arrow of Time.

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