Doctors are exploring the use of 'digital twins' – virtual representations of patients created from their DNA and health records – to predict drug side effects, assess surgical outcomes, and identify potential future health issues. This technology, currently being used primarily for individual organs like the heart, allows for virtual testing of drugs and medical devices, potentially saving lives and reducing medical complications.
Doctors could soon use ‘digital twins’ to virtually test medicines, predict operation outcomes and look for future health issues in patients.
“The first place though where we’re seeing real usefulness, you might say, is not the whole human being but one of your organs,” he said. “You can look at how ageing might affect that heart and you can actually predict then, they're saying, whether you're at risk of heart disease.” “It’s important for this because medical devices, things like stents and valves and so on, they do have a risk of not working properly,” he said.“There were 83,000 deaths, for example, in 2018, because of medical devices; 1.7 million injuries."
“If it says, ‘Uh oh, there’s a chemical group here that predicts toxicity’, then I know there’s a risk of that causing side effects.
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