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MIT gadget puts multiple artificial organs into a paperback-sized connected system | TechCrunch
If you want to see how a proposed drug affects human physiology, your options are limited — and usually you end up using mice, which are in many ways poor analogues. What's a pharmacologist to do? MIT researchers have a solution: a "body on a chip" that simulates up to 10 interconnected human organs at once using millions of living cells.
Devin Coldewey