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> A study involving virtual rather than real patients was as effective as traditional clinical trials in evaluating a medical device used to treat brain aneurysms, according to new research.
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> The findings are proof of concept for what are called in-silico trials, where instead of recruiting people to a real-life clinical trial, researchers build digital simulations of patient groups, loosely akin to the way virtual populations are built in The Sims computer game.

Source: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4848/huge_potential_in_virtual_clinical_trials
Publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23998-w