“Body-on-a-chip” pieced together from lab-grown micro-organs

Before new drugs can be approved for use, they have to be put through rigorous safety tests on animals and artificial models, but the results don’t always carry over to the human body. Miniature organs grown in labs have been helpful test subjects in the past, but the problem is that they don’t replicate how drugs affect other parts of the body. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have combined several of these organ models into one system, to create a more detailed “body-on-a-chip.”

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Mind on a chip next.

Choices for being in different bodies.

Choices for being in a real body or in in a virtual one.

People will be able to move between different bodies, different types of robots, different types of real or virtual worlds.

You’ll still be able to dream in both real or virtual states.

Cyborgs will have small systems with organs for just growing skin over a electrified metal skeleton.

Bodies on chips will be able to eventually do other things like grow organs from scratch or repair damaged organs.

They can be implanted into peoples organs and will monitor and repair any organ damage as needed.

There’s technology already in this area.

Imagine the first person to go onto a chip then back again.

What if they got the nutrient-rich liquid to perfectly match the bodies requirements without any waste?

That would mean you no longer have to go the toilet so often or at all.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Imagine the first person to go onto a chip then back again.

Steven Seagull.

You would travel from your body onto the chip.

All the electro-chemcial activity in your brain would be transferred onto the chip.

While in the chip, you you be stored in the chips memory, its would have a multi perception module, and a virtual reality module, your body and its perception of the world are all created in this part of the chip.

Then the return journey back .

Could creating artificial environments help train people in taking the journey from their body to a chip?

AwesomeO said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Imagine the first person to go onto a chip then back again.

Steven Seagull.

Went in ok, came back out very violent.

Tau.Neutrino said:

“Body-on-a-chip” pieced together from lab-grown micro-organs

Before new drugs can be approved for use, they have to be put through rigorous safety tests on animals and artificial models, but the results don’t always carry over to the human body. Miniature organs grown in labs have been helpful test subjects in the past, but the problem is that they don’t replicate how drugs affect other parts of the body. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have combined several of these organ models into one system, to create a more detailed “body-on-a-chip.”

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I should have seen this coming.