Kurzweil : "3D ‘body-on-a-chip’ project aims to accelerate drug testing, reduce costs... | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it

Kurzweil 09/10/17 : "A team of scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and nine other institutions has engineered miniature 3D human hearts, lungs, and livers to achieve more realistic testing of how the human body responds to new drugs... The “body-on-a-chip” project, funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, aims to help reduce the estimated $2 billion cost and 90 percent failure rate that pharmaceutical companies face when developing new medications. The research is described in an open-access paper in Scientific Reports, published by Nature...


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"Body-on-a-chip" project : http://bit.ly/2y8eLaz