This Microchip That Could Reduce Animal Testing has Designers Excited

Health and Medicine





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Micro life. Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Author provided

One of the greatest challenges to our healthcare system today is creating effective new drugs. Despite ever-increasing investments in research and development, the number of drugs that win approval for clinical use each year has steadily decreased over the past 50 years. It now costs of more than $2.5bn (£1.6bn) to bring a single compound from the bench to patients.