Miniature Heart Bioreactor for Safe Drug Testing
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are working on a technology that could improve and streamline drug development. They are creating an artificial heart that has the same biological content and structure as a human heart, and replicates beat rate and the blood flow. It could one day be used to test new drugs safely and efficiently and eliminate animal testing.
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