Washington, May 19 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have revealed that a computer-based model made by them has been able to capture the body’s immune response to flu.
Project leaders Dr. Hulin Wu and Dr. Martin S. Zand have revealed that their computer simulation tool is aimed at some day predicting the body’s response to seasonal, bird and swine flu.
The researchers claim that they are the first to have successfully tested a computer simulation of major portions of the body’s immune reaction to influenza type A, with implications for treatment design and preparation ahead of future pandemics.
They say that the new “global” flu model is built out of preexisting, smaller-scale models that capture in mathematical equations millions of simulated interactions between virtual immune cells and viruses.

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