UW researchers to help develop chips of living cells
Researchers around the country will soon begin to grow tissue cells inside three-dimensional chips, in hopes of mimicking any organ for drug testing, a revolutionary project aimed at taking humans out of the early phases of clinical trials.
A team of Seattle researchers will use the chips to simulate the kidney, an organ often susceptible to harm from drugs. So instead of using real human kidneys, they will grow a kidney model to see firsthand — without affecting people — the damage from a tested drug.