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

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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