Meet your digital twin

<p>Imagine we could have a digital version of our entire body which could help us, and our doctors, decide what life style is good for us, predict which diseases we might get, and how to best treat them? In short, what if we could all have our very own digital twin?</p> <p>The idea isn't quite as sci-fi as it sounds. A gigantic scientific effort called the <a href='https://www.iups.org/activities/physiome/'>Physiome Project</a> is about piecing together a mathematical description of the entire physiology of the human body. Once this has been achieved to a sufficient level digital twins will be a spin-off.</p> <p>In this podcast we revisit an interview we did back in 2019 with <a href='https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/245775/professor-steven-niederer-joins-nhli/'>Steven Niederer</a>, who was then Professor of Biomedical Engineering at King's College London but has since moved to a new position at Imperial College London as Chair of Biomedical Engineering. Niederer told us about the ph...