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Virtual You

How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life

Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield
Princeton UP, 2023

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9

Qualities

  • Visionary
  • Background
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

In the future, doctors may use “digital twins” – sophisticated computer simulations of your body – to provide personalized medical care. Your digital twin would react as you would to a drug or other treatment. It could also alert your doctor to health issues that might trouble you in the future. Professors Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield illuminate the history and future of biological simulations. Though they target a general audience, their citations of mathematics, biology and computer science make their book a challenging, stimulating read for laypeople.

Take-Aways

  • The engineering concept of “digital twins” is an emergent medical tool.
  • Creating Virtual You starts with amassing health data.
  • Researchers will transform data into theory.

About the Authors

The director of University College London’s Centre for Computational Science,  Peter Coveney is also a professor at the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam and an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 2023, Roger Highfield, the Science Director at the Science Museum Group, was named honorary president of the Association of British Science Writers. 

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