• Question: Computer science already aids some medical scenarios; is it likely that in the future these disciplines will be viewed as biomedical engineering?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lynne Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      Computers are already a key part of the developments of medicines. We use them to help us to design new medicines and also to help us understand how processes take place in our bodies. Without computers, everything would be a lot slower! It is inevitable that as computers improve, combined with an improvement in the understanding of how we can use them, we will be able to answer more and more complex questions with increased accuracy.

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      Daren Fearon answered on 22 Jun 2014:

      Computer processing power means we can do experiments now that would have been unthinkable, even 20 years ago. We use computers pretty much everyday for processing data and driving the drug discovery process. We can also use computers to simulate protein structures and how they interact with potential drugs.

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