Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a quicker, faster, and cheaper device to test human affects from medications. This new device eliminates the necessity of animal testing diminishing the need for costly experiments. The "chip" is an inch long tube containing a small piece of cardiac muscle. The muscle responds to the certain medications in an human-like manner. Rather than testing on animals and having the inaccurate animal responses. The idea of the chip were designed to mimic blood vessels and connective tissue fibers that are present in the human body. More specifically, researchers have been able to take a human's adult stem cells to test and study their personal affects of certain treatments or medications.Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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UC Berkeley creates the Heart On A Chip
Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a quicker, faster, and cheaper device to test human affects from medications. This new device eliminates the necessity of animal testing diminishing the need for costly experiments. The "chip" is an inch long tube containing a small piece of cardiac muscle. The muscle responds to the certain medications in an human-like manner. Rather than testing on animals and having the inaccurate animal responses. The idea of the chip were designed to mimic blood vessels and connective tissue fibers that are present in the human body. More specifically, researchers have been able to take a human's adult stem cells to test and study their personal affects of certain treatments or medications.
Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a quicker, faster, and cheaper device to test human affects from medications. This new device eliminates the necessity of animal testing diminishing the need for costly experiments. The "chip" is an inch long tube containing a small piece of cardiac muscle. The muscle responds to the certain medications in an human-like manner. Rather than testing on animals and having the inaccurate animal responses. The idea of the chip were designed to mimic blood vessels and connective tissue fibers that are present in the human body. More specifically, researchers have been able to take a human's adult stem cells to test and study their personal affects of certain treatments or medications.
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