How to build a virtual human

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Recorded at the Science Museum on 27 September 2017 One day your doctor will be able to recreate you in a computer so that a virtual version of you can be used to try out treatments, like a crash test dummy, guinea pig and trial volunteer all rolled into one. Your digital doppelgänger could breathe, blister and bleed. It could be dissected, probed and explored in unprecedented detail, helping to work out the treatments that work best for you. Join Roger Highfield with Prof Peter Coveney (UCL) who leads the consortium, on simulating how drugs work in the body, for instance to treat cancer and Aids Prof Blanca Rodriguez (Oxford University), on virtual hearts Prof Marco Viceconti (Sheffield University), a key player in the Virtual Physiological Human initiative Prof Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam), on virtual blood vessels and more