INNOVATOR Status
The One Million Solutions in Health Technology Evaluation Consortium has awarded the Wyss Institute of Harvard University INNOVATOR Status for their breakthrough technology, organ-on-a-chip. The organ-on-a-chip technology is designed to provide an alternative for typical cell cultures and animal models by creating a synthetic "organ" through microfabrication engineering techniques that is used for medication safety testing. The process can bypass the traditional method of laboratory animal testing.
For those of us who speak regular English...
Basically, the Wyss Institute has created a way for "organs" to be constructed of some magical wires and microchips or something and can act as a human organ. These artificial organs can be used to test the safety of medications and the way they will "act" in the body. The technology could eliminate the use of animal testing and is less expensive, possibly lowering drug costs.
It means less of this:
...and more of this!
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