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Virtual You

By: Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield, Venki Ramakrishnan - foreword
Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
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Summary

This audiobook narrated by Quentin Cooper describes 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 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.

©2023 Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield, Venki Ramakrishnan (P)2023 Princeton University Press

Critic reviews

“This timely and highly informative book should be a thought provoker for a large and diverse readership, including the future research leaders and pioneers that will drive this field forward.”—Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute
Virtual You provides a dazzling guide to the frontiers of modern science, from the limits of mathematics, AI, and algorithms to the latest in genetics, deep learning, and quantum computing, to show how digital twins of people will herald a new era of medicine, one that is truly personalized and predictive.”—George Em Karniadakis, Brown University
Virtual You gives a fascinating and accessible overview of the many global collaborative efforts to create a digital twin of a human being, and looks toward a future where the vision of P4 medicine—predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory—has become a reality.”—Tony Hey, coauthor of The New Quantum Universe

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