$15m mega-project aims to create 'virtual humans'
3 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Auckland Bioengineering Institute deputy director Professor Merryn Tawhai has been using computational modelling to map out human lung structure and function. Photo / University of Auckland
Auckland Bioengineering Institute deputy director Professor Merryn Tawhai has been using computational modelling to map out human lung structure and function. Photo / University of Auckland
Insights about our bodies gleaned from years of modelling are set to be translated into clinical practice, in a major new effort that could bring us closer to personalised medicine.
In what's been dubbed the
"12 Labours" project, University of Auckland researchers will build off a sprawling international effort to create a complete virtual physiological human.