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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 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.
From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan 'Beyond superb' Bill
Bryson 'A wonderful book' Ian McEwan Everyone knows about DNA, the
essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA
by itself is useless without a machine to decode the genetic
information it contains. The ribosome is that machine. Venki
Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover its enormously
complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resolves an
ancient mystery of life itself.
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