Large-scale simulation of human blood is boon to personalized medicine
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot.