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Comment by el_oni

From a bio perspective, it sounds like a great idea.

From a squimish perspective... it sounds like something from a horrendous distopia. I just have visions of rows of human shaped tissue cultures.

A less horrendous version could be cultured cells for each organ, with some kind of circulation between them which one could test theraputics for cytotoxicity. I've seen "labs on a chip"[0] for things like PCR, I wonder if you could do that for drug testing in vitro.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab-on-a-chip

parent el_oni 6 years ago

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