Modeling Human Drug Trials — Without the Human(wired.com)

Modeling Human Drug Trials — Without the Human

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_archimedes

And so Eddy hit on the idea of a soup-to-nuts model that would capture everything known by modern medicine, from the evolution of disease in different people — as shaped by factors like race, genetic risk, and number of hours spent doing yoga — to specific physiological details, such as the amount of heart muscle that dies in the hours after a heart attack and the degree to which medications like aspirin can limit that damage.

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