The future of drug testing

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The future of drug testing and efficient real time results is fast on its way with Microengineering in the medical field today.

Microchips lined by living human cells could revolutionize the world and have a major impact on personalised medicine for society. Clinical trials of medication will take years of testing and not even to mention the amounts of money invested to get these products from the labs to retail and on the shelve.

There might be a better way moving into the future to monetize and optimize the process of drug testing to shelve.

For decades testing medicines and other medical related substances have gone through trials to measure the effects and dosage amount. These trails take a really long while to extract enough data to conclude research, starting at the cost of lab and animal testing. These tests cost millions and even billions to test and the real sad thing is that most of them fail.

It’s referred to as the broken pharmaceutical industry.

A Genius Professor has found a way to test parts of the body through simulating the testing process, eliminating both human and animal testing, with the help of a chip base technology.

This plastic chip contains all the necessary things needed for the test and behaves like a normal breathing human would. The chip is split into three parts. The first part contains the cells and bacteria that are being tested. The second part contains real white blood cells and the third part is a membrane that divides the first and second parts from one another. The third part can move and breathe like a human does and allow the other parts to interact with one another, just like in a human body.


One benefit of these chips is that totally excludes the cruel testing on animals. In some cases, these tests have different results on humans than on animals, which could ruin years of research.

Today, we can skip this process, resulting in a breakthrough much more efficient results in a testing phase. Testing now is more specific by testing patients own cells instead of generalizing results. There is no doubt that this device or chip is revolutionary and will definitely have a major impact on disease modeling and personalized medicine on a global scale.

For now, we’ll have to wait for these innovate chips as they are still being developed to open its doors to mainstream industries.


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