Significant Progress Toward Creating "Benchtop Human" Reported
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 13:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Vanderbilt physicist John Wikswo reported significant progress toward creating "homo minutus" - a benchtop human - on Mar. 26 at the Society of Toxicology meeting in Phoenix. So-called organ-on-a-chip technology is being developed to provide a better and less expensive method of drug and toxicity testing.