AI-Powered Virtual Cells: From Science Fiction to Clinical Reality

2025-06-20
AI-Powered Virtual Cells: From Science Fiction to Clinical Reality

From Hodgkin-Huxley's four equations to today's whole-cell models with tens of thousands of parameters, simulating life has made incredible strides. Scientists build digital twins of cells, recreating molecular processes in silico, even creating and modeling the synthetic organism JCVI-syn3.0 with just 473 genes. AI's integration accelerates this, shrinking complex gene expression simulations from hours to minutes, pushing virtual cell models into drug discovery and personalized medicine. This marks a new era of biology and computer science collaboration.

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