Virtual You

Virtual You

EnglishHardback
Coveney Peter
Princeton University Press
EAN: 9780691223278
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The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future.

“Transformative―a brilliant vision of how building your digital double might just save your life.”― Hannah Fry, author of Hello World.

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 personalized 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 also 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 modeling to extraordinary new forms of computing, that will make “virtual you” a reality, while also considering the ethical questions inherent to realizing 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.

EAN 9780691223278
ISBN 0691223270
Binding Hardback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication date March 28, 2023
Pages 336
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 156
Country United States
Authors Coveney Peter; Highfield Roger
Illustrations 54 b/w and 15 color illustrations