I've always wondered why we can't make a virtual human similar to the patient with a disease and run virtual drug trials. Well my friends, this is the step in that direction, which I think will only become more and more popular as the technology becomes cheaper. So, tilt your head up to the clouds and take a look at the future, as it has already started in the research for pediatric cancer.
Pediatric cancer is a rare, yet highly fatal disease. It affects one in every 100,000 children and kills one in every seven, annually. Since 1980, only one new drug has come out from big Pharma for the treatment of Pediatric cancer. Dell has teamed up with parents, physicians, and engineers to facilitate a new drug trial, specifically for neuroblastoma. This investigational drug trial will create a new personalized medicine process in "real time" to determine which drug would work better for the patient's specific tumor. The procedure will generate more than 200 billion measurements per patient! Even with the new cloud donated by Dell, it will take weeks to months to analyze all of the data collected. The donated cloud will increase the gene sequencing and analysis process by 1,200 percent and develop collaboration between the team.
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