Article in 'The Times' on how experiments on animals could end in a generation thanks to the VPH
5th June 2009
'The Times' reported today that the use of animal experiments could be replaced by research on “virtual human beings” and tests on banks of living cells within a generation, following a series of talks given at the Cheltenham Science Festival on June 4th 2009.
Steven Manos, Member of VPH NoE, UCL gave a talk on the Virtual Physiological Human and was quoted as stating that an expanding database of computer simulation data — the Virtual Physiological Human Project — would lead to more effective treatments. But he added that even the most sophisticated computer models represented only “a small fraction of the complexity of animals”. “Real reduction is therefore going to be a long-term, not near-term, goal,” he said.
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