{"id":12221,"date":"2023-11-12T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/how-digital-twins-may-enable-personalised-health-treatment\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:38:05","slug":"how-digital-twins-may-enable-personalised-health-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/how-digital-twins-may-enable-personalised-health-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research is growing into computational models that will move medicine beyond what works on the average patient<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having a digital twin that gets ill, and can be experimented on to identify the best possible treatment, without you having to go near a pill or a surgeon\u2019s knife. Scientists believe that within five to 10 years, \u201cin silico\u201d trials \u2013 in which hundreds of virtual organs are used to assess the safety and efficacy of drugs \u2013 could become routine, while patient-specific organ models could be used to personalise treatment and avoid medical complications.<\/p>\n<p>Digital twins are computational models of physical objects or processes, updated using data from their real-world counterparts. Within medicine, this means combining vast amounts of data about the workings of genes, proteins, cells and whole-body systems with patients\u2019 personal data to create virtual models of their organs \u2013 and eventually, potentially their entire body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/nov\/12\/digital-twin-personalised-medical-treatment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2ad6822b32f6afba8e3b4d1f5553358666a5b73\/0_0_4064_2438\/master\/4064.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0414274ecebb4334c6d080d5724adf1d\" title=\"How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment\" \/>Research is growing into computational models that will move medicine beyond what works on the average patient<br \/>\nImagine having a digital twin that gets ill, and can be experimented on to identify the best possible treatment, without you having to go near a pill or a surgeon\u2019s knife. Scientists believe that within five to 10 years, \u201cin silico\u201d trials \u2013 in which hundreds of virtual organs are used to assess the safety and efficacy of drugs \u2013 could become routine, while patient-specific organ models could be used to personalise treatment and avoid medical complications.<br \/>\nDigital twins are computational models of physical objects or processes, updated using data from their real-world counterparts. Within medicine, this means combining vast amounts of data about the workings of genes, proteins, cells and whole-body systems with patients\u2019 personal data to create virtual models of their organs \u2013 and eventually, potentially their entire body. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research is growing into computational models that will move medicine beyond what works on the average patient Imagine having a digital twin that gets ill, and can be experimented on to identify the best possible treatment, without you having to go near a pill or a surgeon\u2019s knife. Scientists believe that within five to 10 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/how-digital-twins-may-enable-personalised-health-treatment\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}