"Human-on-a-chip" is a groundbreaking system in the bio-medical industry. Imagine the ability to bypass the long process of animal and human trials in the testing of drugs? Researchers at the University of Central Florida discovered a way to use stem cells to grow neuromuscular junctions between human muscle cells and human spinal cord cells. This new breakthrough in science allows us to create miniature fully functioning organs. Testing on human organs opposed to mice and other organisms cuts out any reason of doubt in clinical trials. This may hold the key in the treatment of of many spinal cord injuries and diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is a disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. James Hickman and his colleagues at UCF have received about $1.4 million in grant funding from The National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Federal Drug Administration to help push this research forward.
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ReplyDeleteSounds expensive but it would be a lot safer then feeding drugs with unknown possibly fatal side effects to people.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great thing for the FDA to be getting involved in to make the testing of drugs more accurate and to also save thousands of animals from lives of animal testing in the lab!
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