The End of the Lab Rat?

Written By JHU MPS

August 20, 2024

Scientific American profiled Johns Hopkins PIs Deok-Ho Kim and Vasiliki Machairaki, spotlighting Kim’s engineered human heart-on-a-chip for drug cardiotoxicity testing and Machairaki’s patient-derived iPSC brain organoids for Alzheimer’s research. The article highlights Hopkins’ organ-on-chip/iPSC platforms as next-gen alternatives that can reduce reliance on animal models.

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals Obsolete | Scientific American

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