This Brain on a Chip tech is designed to destroy brain tumours faster and cheaper
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The treatments to destroy and kill brain tumours hasn’t evolved very much in the past two decades, but new technologies are coming through to give us hope. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...
Tumour-on-a-Chip invention could accelerate new cancer treatments
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today if you want to see how effective a drug is at killing Cancer you have to rely on human trials, but that could soon be a thing of the past. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the...
Placenta-on-a-Chip breakthrough could prevent birth defects and save lives
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Studying the effects that different drugs that pregnant women take during their pregnancies on their unborn children is complex, difficult and expensive, this technology could help save lives and reduce the likelihood of unwelcome birth defects. Recently we’ve seen the creation of Brain in...
The FDA begins “Humans on Chips” trials to replace animal testing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bit by bit animal testing is slowly being replaced by new more modern methods, the FDA’s new “Humans on Chips” collaboration will accelerate its demise and make drug testing cheaper, faster and safer. A future without animal testing has taken a step closer this...
Scientists have grown a human stomach in a petri dish
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The more organs scientists can create outside of the human body the greater the benefits to human healthcare, this latest breakthrough takes us another step closer to realising the potential of regenerative medicine. When scientists want to understand how a drug works, they often...
Harvard puts a 3D printed Heart on a Chip to make drug testing safer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Organs-on-chips pave the way for faster, safer, animal free drug testing and will contribute to a healthcare revolution. Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D printed “Heart on a...
Human on a chip development signals the end of animal testing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Noone will be sad to see the back of animal testing. Before a new drug or medical treatment can be let loose on human beings, it has to go through a rigorous set of tests to make sure it’s safe – tests that unfortunately...
