"Singapore-based startup Mesh Bio raises $3.5 M to make digital twin technologies available at scale"

From BioSpectrumAsia, January 31:

New investment comes three months after Mesh Bio secured historic regulatory approval 

Mesh Bio, a Singapore-based health deep tech startup transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics, has raised $3.5 million in Series A financing led by East Ventures, a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm focusing on Southeast Asia. This round of investment also saw participation of Elev8, Seed Capitals, and other existing shareholders.

The funding will allow Mesh Bio to offer its digital twin technologies to healthcare providers and scale the deployment of these solutions across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia and the Philippines....

....MUCH MORE

This stuff is happening now. And even though long-time readers have probably internalized the quotes on models, don't let them stop you from thinking about how useful a digital model twin could be.

And for newer readers here's a post from 2012 (there are earlier uses but this was the first that popped up):

Modelling vs. Science

A subject near and dear to our jaded hearts, some links below.
If an experiment is not reproducible it is not science.
If an hypothesis is not falsifiable it is not science.

Finally, our two guiding principles regarding models:

"The map is not the territory"

-Alfred Korzybski

"A Non-Aristotelian System and its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics" 

presented before the American Mathematical Society December 28, 1931

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful"

-George E.P. Box

Section heading, page 2 of Box's paper, "Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building"

(May 1979)

From Pannell Discussions:

Mick Keogh, from the Australian Farm Institute, recently argued that “much greater caution is required when considering policy responses for issues where the main science available is based on modelled outcomes”. I broadly agree with that conclusion, although there were some points in the article that didn’t gel with me.....