Researchers Developing “Organs-On-A-Chip.”

researchers are developing “organs-on-a-chip” that “are designed to test drugs and help understand the basics of how organs function when they are healthy and when they are diseased.” The blog added, “‘There’s going to be a brain-on-a-chip, liver, heart and so on,’ says Danilo Tagle, who coordinates this overall effort at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences,” part of the NIH. Altogether, “it is funding development of 10 organ systems.” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/02/371945110/researchers-create-artificial-organs-on-microchips