Can computing cure disease faster?

And I think we should start with the definition, Yushan, because I'm pretty sure that computational medicine might be a term that many are not familiar with.

Well, when I first heard about it, I had no idea what it is.

And

that's why I said what I said.

Because I'm one of those people.

In the most easy way of understanding in English, computational medicine, it uses mathematics and computers to work work out how diseases behave.

Instead of relying only on observing patients or conducting experiments in the lab, researchers nowadays build mathematical models of what is happening inside the body and use them to explore possible explanations and treatments.

So previously, when mentioning mega projects, I mean, industrial projects, we mentioned something called digital mirror, as in there's a physical project out there.

A

digital twin, yeah.

Yeah.

And then we have a mimic on the computer and where everything is predicted and everything is mimicked.

It's something just like that.

But in medicine making or medicine innovation, imagine creating a computer-based version of a patient using information about their genes, the scans of their body and their tissue samples.

And then from there, researchers can use that virtual patient to explore how a disease might develop in this very body or how the body might respond to a certain drug.

It is not a perfect digital copy of a human being, of course, but it can help scientists to test, at least for now, the new ideas before moving on to real world experiments.

And I think we should start with the definition, Yushan, because I'm pretty sure that computational medicine might be a term that many are not familiar with.

Well, when I first heard about it, I had no idea what it is.

And

that's why I said what I said.

Because I'm one of those people.

In the most easy way of understanding in English, computational medicine, it uses mathematics and computers to work work out how diseases behave.

Instead of relying only on observing patients or conducting experiments in the lab, researchers nowadays build mathematical models of what is happening inside the body and use them to explore possible explanations and treatments.

So previously, when mentioning mega projects, I mean, industrial projects, we mentioned something called digital mirror, as in there's a physical project out there.

A

digital twin, yeah.

Yeah.

And then we have a mimic on the computer and where everything is predicted and everything is mimicked.

It's something just like that.

But in medicine making or medicine innovation, imagine creating a computer-based version of a patient using information about their genes, the scans of their body and their tissue samples.

And then from there, researchers can use that virtual patient to explore how a disease might develop in this very body or how the body might respond to a certain drug.

It is not a perfect digital copy of a human being, of course, but it can help scientists to test, at least for now, the new ideas before moving on to real world experiments.