Human-On-A-Chip

‘Human-on-a-Chip’ Could Replace Animal Testing (+Video)

Jeremy Thomas | June 7, 2016

Development of new prescription drugs and antidotes to toxins currently relies extensively on animal testing in the early stages of development, which is not only expensive and time consuming, it can give scientists inaccurate data about how humans will respond to such agents.
But what if researchers could predict the impacts of potentially harmful chemicals, viruses or drugs on human beings without resorting to animal or even human test subjects?
To help achieve that, a team of scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is developing a “human-on-a-chip,” a miniature external replication of the human body, integrating biology and engineering with a combination of microfluidics and multi-electrode arrays.

"A team of scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is developing “human-on-a-chip,” a miniature external replication of the human body, integrating biology and engineering with a combination of microfluidics and multi-electrode arrays." Source: http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/human-chip-could-replace-animal-testing

<more at http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/human-chip-could-replace-animal-testing; related articles and links: http://www.independentnews.com/labs_link/llnlrss/ichip-human-physiology-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/youtube_e9c2a123-5dbb-5d59-ae57-cd1fae9d19ce.html (+Video) (iCHIP: Human Physiology in the Palm of Your Hand. July 6, 2016) and http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/293/ (Wyss Institute: Organs-on-a-Chip) >