Optimata: Models That Take Drugs
Optimata: Models That Take Drugs: ”
Ecologically-speaking, the clinical trials business is costly and unfriendly. Large numbers of animals are bred for pre-clinical trials, vast quantities of plastic test-tubes are consumed as well as huge financial expenditures that go into making a new drug. Yet even with all of this investment, few drugs makes it through the drug development process. But thanks to Israeli bio-simulation company, Optimata, drug-developers can now bypass some of the development stages. Using a virtual computerized patient that mimics a human being’s biological processes (created by complex mathematical parameters), Optimata can help predict drug toxicity and efficacy well-before drugs are used on animal models (a polite word for saying experimentations on lab rats and monkeys). Drug developers take heed: Optimata was able to successfully predict the outcomes of breast cancer patients in Nottingham, UK hospital.
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(Via Treehugger.)
[tags]chemical, laboratory, medicine, simulation, drug, biology, body[/tags]
