The era of personalised medicine is getting ever closer and already genome sequencing, clinical and lifestyle data is all playing into treatment options.
But what about stepping into a world where a digital twin will help test treatment options before they are tried out?
New Zealand is said to be at the forefront of global research in this field - where virtual digital replicas of patients are built from their health data.
Professor Merryn Tawhai is the director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute - based at Auckland University - and is "reimagining healthcare with human digital twins."
