Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing

Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by econcon on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:10PM (#23024336)

I've heard nearly any implant you put inside body has negative impact and this is also true for titanium implants which is seemingly inert and harmless metal.

How many people their body with some industrial chip, I'll never use anything like this unless my life depends on it.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by wgrover on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:18PM (#23024457)

This isn't a chip for implanting inside the body; this is a microfluidic chip that replicates some body systems in the laboratory.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by monkeydust on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:06PM (#23025003)

OK why the need for a physical chip, why not replicate in software?

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by fao_ on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:49PM (#23025971)

Look at how much energy and computer cycles they have to put into just for folding a single protein and then realise that scaling it up at our current level is basically impossible: https://foldingathome.org/

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by anamexis on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:27PM (#23025265)

Because we can't effectively model the behavior of human tissue in software.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by eximius on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @08:01PM (#23026063)

We can't even effectively model basic chemistry. We can't a priori tell you what color a chemical will be, much less many of its other properties.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by hprotagonist on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:29PM (#23025292)

by a long shot, too.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by ahupp on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:33PM (#23026586)

It's not a chip like a CPU. It's chemistry and biology.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by vikramkr on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:45PM (#23024766)

These are being made as research tools, not as implants

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